{ "id": "1507.07131", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-07-25T20:21:23.000Z", "updated": "2015-07-25T20:21:23.000Z", "title": "Obstructions to combinatorial formulas for plethysm", "authors": [ "Thomas Kahle", "Mateusz Michalek" ], "comment": "4 pages", "categories": [ "math.RT", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Motivated by questions of Mulmuley and Stanley we investigate quasi-polynomials arising in formulas for plethysm. We demonstrate, on $S^3(S^k)$, that these need not be counting functions of lattice points in convex bodies, even when restricted to single rays.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-07-25T20:21:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20G05", "11P21", "11H06", "05A16", "52B20", "52B55", "20C15" ], "keywords": [ "combinatorial formulas", "obstructions", "lattice points", "convex bodies", "single rays" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv150707131K" } } }