Haglund's conjecture for multi-t Macdonald polynomials

We provide new approaches to prove identities for the modified Macdonald polynomials via their LLT expansions. As an application, we prove a conjecture of Haglund concerning the multi-t-Macdonald polynomials of two rows.     

Smooth and irreducible multigraded Hilbert schemes

The multigraded Hilbert scheme parametrizes all homogeneous ideals in a polynomial ring graded by an abelian group with a fixed Hilbert function. We prove that any multigraded Hilbert scheme is smooth and irreducible when the polynomial ring is Z[x,y], which establishes a conjecture of Haiman and Sturmfels.     

A polynomial expression for the Hilbert series of the quotient ring of diagonal coinvariants

A special case of Haiman?s identity [M. Haiman, Vanishing theorems and character formulas for the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane, Invent. Math. 149 (2002) 371–407] for the character of the quotient ring of diagonal coinvariants under the diagonal action of the symmetric group yields a formula for the bigraded Hilbert series as a sum of rational functions in q,t. In this paper we show how a summation identity of Garsia and Zabrocki for Macdonald polynomial Pieri coefficients can be used to transform Haiman?s formula for the Hilbert series into an explicit polynomial in q,t with integer coefficients. We also provide an equivalent formula for the Hilbert series as the constant term in a multivariate Laurent series.     

Ideals of the cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes and their applications

We study the ideals of the rational cohomology ring of the Hilbert scheme of points on a smooth projective surface . As an application, for a large class of smooth quasi-projective surfaces , we show that every cup product structure constant of is independent of ; moreover, we obtain two sets of ring generators for the cohomology ring .

Similar results are established for the Chen-Ruan orbifold cohomology ring of the symmetric product. In particular, we prove a ring isomorphism between and for a large class of smooth quasi-projective surfaces with numerically trivial canonical class.

     

(Shifted) Macdonald polynomials: q-Integral representation and combinatorial formula

We extend some results about shifted Schur functions to the general context of shifted Macdonald polynomials. We strengthen some theorems of F. Knop and S. Sahi and give two explicit formulas for these polynomials: a q-integral representation and a combinatorial formula. Our main tool is a q-integral representation for ordinary Macdonald polynomial. We also discuss duality for shifted Macdonald polynomials and Jack degeneration of these polynomials.     

Some criteria for the Cohen-Macaulay property and local cohomology

Let a be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R and M be a finitely generated R-module of dimension d. We characterize Cohen-Macaulay rings in term of a special homological dimension. Lastly, we prove that if R is a complete local ring, then the Matlis dual of top local cohomology module Ha^d（M） is a Cohen-Macaulay R-module provided that the R-module M satisfies some conditions.     

Flag Hilbert schemes and moduli spaces of torsion plane sheaves

We find certain relations between flag Hilbert schemes of points on plane curves and moduli spaces of one-dimensional plane sheaves. We show that some of these moduli spaces are stably rational.     

On the Connection Between Macdonald Polynomials and Demazure Characters

We show that the specialization of nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials at t = 0 are, up to multiplication by a simple factor, characters of Demazure modules for . This connection furnishes Lie-theoretic proofs of the nonnegativity and monotonicity of Kostka polynomials.     

Hirzebruch χy genera of the Hilbert schemes of surfaces by localization formula

We use the Atiyah-Bott-Segal-Singer Lefschetz fixed point formula to calculate the Hirzebruch χy genus χy(S[n]), where S[n] is the Hilbert scheme of points of length n of a surface S. Combinatorial interpretation of the weights of the fixed points of the natural torus action on (C2)[n] is used. This is the first step to prove a conjectural formula about the elliptic genus of the Hilbert schemes.     

A Remark on the Fourier Pairing and the Binomial Formula for the Macdonald Polynomials

We concisely and directly prove that the interpolation Macdonald polynomials are orthogonal with respect to the Fourier pairing and briefly discuss immediate applications of this fact, in particular, to the symmetry of the Fourier pairing and to the binomial formula.     

Hirzebruch Xy genera of the Hilbert schemes of surfaces by localization formula

We use the Atiyah-Bott-Segal-Singer Lefschetz fixed point formula to calculate the Hirzebruch ?_y genus X_y(S^[n]), where S^[n] is the Hilbert scheme of points of length n of a surface S. Combinatorial interpretation of the weights of the fixed points of the natural torus action on ( ²)^[n] is used. This is the first step to prove a conjectural formula about the elliptic genus of the Hilbert schemes.     

Nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials and matrix coefficients for unramified principal series

We show how a certain limit of the nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials appears in the representation theory of semisimple groups over p-adic fields as matrix coefficients for the unramified principal series representations. The result is the nonsymmetric counterpart of a classical result relating the same limit of the symmetric Macdonald polynomials to zonal spherical functions on groups of p-adic type.     

Deformed Kazhdan-Lusztig elements and Macdonald polynomials

We introduce deformations of Kazhdan-Lusztig elements and specialised non-symmetric Macdonald polynomials, both of which form a distinguished basis of the polynomial representation of a maximal parabolic subalgebra of the Hecke algebra. We give explicit integral formula for these polynomials, and explicitly describe the transition matrices between classes of polynomials. We further develop a combinatorial interpretation of homogeneous evaluations using an expansion in terms of Schubert polynomials in the deformation parameters.     

Some remarks on tautological sheaves on Hilbert schemes of points on a surface

We study tautological sheaves on the Hilbert scheme of points on a smooth quasi-projective algebraic surface by means of the Bridgeland–King–Reid transform. We obtain Brion–Danila’s Formulas for the derived direct image of tautological sheaves or their double tensor product for the Hilbert–Chow morphism; as an application we compute the cohomology of the Hilbert scheme with values in tautological sheaves or in their double tensor product, thus generalizing results previously obtained for tautological bundles.      

The correlation functions of vertex operators and Macdonald polynomials

The n-point correlation functions introduced by Bloch and Okounkov have already found several geometric connections and algebraic generalizations. In this note we formulate a q,t-deformation of this n-point function. The key operator used in our formulation arises from the theory of Macdonald polynomials and affords a vertex operator interpretation. We obtain closed formulas for the n-point functions when n = 1,2 in terms of the basic hypergeometric functions. We further generalize the q,t-deformed n-point function to more general vertex operators.     

A three shuffle case of the compositional parking function conjecture

We prove here that the polynomial 〈∇_Cp1,_eahbhc〉$〈\mathrm{\nabla }{\mathbf{C}}_{p}1,e_a{h}_b{h}_c〉$q,t$q,t$-enumerates, by the statistics dinv and area  , the parking functions whose supporting Dyck path touches the main diagonal according to the composition p?a+b+c$p?a+b+c$ and has a reading word which is a shuffle of one decreasing word and two increasing words of respective sizes a, b, c  . Here _Cp1${\mathbf{C}}_{p}1$ is a rescaled Hall–Littlewood polynomial and ∇ is the Macdonald eigen-operator introduced by Bergeron and Garsia. This is our latest progress in a continued effort to settle the decade old shuffle conjecture   of Haglund et al. This result includes as special cases all previous results connected with the shuffle conjecture such as the q,t$q,t$-Catalan, Schröder and two shuffle results of Haglund as well as their compositional refinements recently obtained by the authors. It also confirms the possibility that the approach adopted by the authors has the potential to yield a resolution of the shuffle parking function conjecture as well as its compositional refinement more recently proposed by Haglund, Morse and Zabrocki.     

Hilbert schemes of surfaces are dense in moduli

We prove that the locus of Hilbert schemes of n points on a projective K 3 surface is dense in the moduli space of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds of that deformation type. The analogous result for generalized Kummer manifolds is proven as well. Along the way we prove an integral constraint on the monodromy group of generalized Kummer manifolds.