Hall-Littlewood Polynomials

P basis

sage: HallLittlewoodP(QQ)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the P basis over Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in t over Rational Field
sage: HallLittlewoodP(QQ, t=-1)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the P basis with t=-1 over Rational Field
sage: HLP = HallLittlewoodP(QQ)
sage: s = SFASchur(HLP.base_ring())
sage: s(HLP([2,1]))
(-t^2-t)*s[1, 1, 1] + s[2, 1]

The Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the P basis at t=0 are the Schur functions.

sage: HLP = HallLittlewoodP(QQ,t=0)
sage: s = SFASchur(HLP.base_ring())
sage: s(HLP([2,1])) == s([2,1])
True

The Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the P basis at t=1 are the monomial symmetric functions.

sage: HLP = HallLittlewoodP(QQ,t=1)
sage: m = SFAMonomial(HLP.base_ring())
sage: m(HLP([2,2,1])) == m([2,2,1])
True

Q basis

The Q basis is dual to the P basis with respect to the Hall-Littlewood scalar product <,>t.

sage: HallLittlewoodQ(QQ)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the Q basis over Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in t over Rational Field
sage: HallLittlewoodQ(QQ, t=-1)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the Q basis with t=-1 over Rational Field

sage: HLP = HallLittlewoodP(QQ)
sage: HLQ = HallLittlewoodQ(QQ)
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar_t(HLQ([2,1]))
1
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar_t(HLQ([1,1,1]))
0
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar_t(HLQ([3]))
0

Qp basis

The Qp basis is dual to the P basis with respect to the standard Hall scalar product.

sage: HallLittlewoodQp(QQ)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the Qp basis over Fraction Field of Univariate Polynomial Ring in t over Rational Field
sage: HallLittlewoodQp(QQ, t=-1)
Hall-Littlewood polynomials in the Qp basis with t=-1 over Rational Field

sage: HLP = HallLittlewoodP(QQ)
sage: HLQp = HallLittlewoodQp(QQ)
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar(HLQp([2,1]))
1
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar(HLQp([1,1,1]))
0
sage: HLP([2,1]).scalar(HLQp([3]))
0