Schur polynomial
A Schur polynomial is a special symmetric polynomial associated
to a partition of an integer, or equivalently to a Young diagram.
Schur polynomials also have a power series generalization
, the
Schur functions.
First we define some notation. Let λ be a partition of n,
and let T be a filling of the Young diagram for λ. Then by
xT we mean the monomial
xT=∞∏i=1xci(T)i, |
where ci(T) is the number of times the number i appears in the
filling T. Since T only has finitely many boxes, the product is
finite. For example, let λ=(3,3,2,2), and let T be the
filling