Canonical characters on quasi-symmetric functions and bivariate Catalan numbers

Details Canonical characters on quasi-symmetric functions and bivariate Catalan numbers Canonical characters on quasi-symmetric functions and bivariate Catalan numbers

2004-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/math/0408053v1

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Combinatorics

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Every character on a graded connected Hopf algebra decomposes uniquely as a product of an even character and an odd character (Aguiar, Bergeron, and Sottile, math.CO/0310016). We obtain explicit formulas for the even and odd parts of the universal character on the Hopf algebra of quasi-symmetric functions. They can be described in terms of Legendre's beta function evaluated at half-integers, or in terms of bivariate Catalan numbers: $$ C(m,n)=\frac{(2m)!(2n)!}{m!(m+n)!n!}. $$ Properties of characters and of quasi-symmetric functions are then used to derive several interesting identities among bivariate Catalan numbers and in particular among Catalan numbers and central binomial coefficients.

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