In this paper, we study Grothendieck polynomials from a combinatorial viewpoint. We introduce the factorial Grothendieck polynomials, analogues of the factorial Schur functions and present some of their properties, and use them to produce a generalisation of a Littlewood-Richardson rule for Grothendieck polynomials.

Given two polynomials, we find a convergence property of the GCD of the rising factorial and the falling factorial. Based on this property, we present a unified approach to computing the universal denominators as given by Gosper’s algorithm and Abramov’s algorithm for finding rational solutions to linear difference equations with polynomial coefficients.

The cumulants and factorial moments of photon distribution for squeezed and correlated light are calculated in terms of Chebyshev, Legendre and Laguerre polynomials. The phenomenon of strong oscillations of the ratio of the cumulant to factorial moment is found. Running title: Oscillations of cumulants in squeezed states.

The paper generalizes the traditional single factorial function to integer-valued multiple factorial (j-factorial) forms. The generalized factorial functions are defined recursively as triangles of coefficients corresponding to the polynomial expansions of a subset of degenerate falling factorial functions. The resulting coefficient triangles are similar to the classical sets of Stirling number...

In this paper, we present an unexpected link between the Factorial Conjecture ([8]) and Furter’s Rigidity Conjecture ([13]). The Factorial Conjecture in dimension m asserts that if a polynomial f in m variables Xi over C is such that L(f) = 0 for all k ≥ 1, then f = 0, where L is the C-linear map from C[X1, · · · , Xm] to C defined by L(X l1 1 · · ·X lm m ) = l1! · · · lm!. The Rigidity Conject...

Abstract. We show that the classical Faulhaber’s theorem on sums of odd powers also holds for an arbitrary arithmetic progression, namely, the odd power sums of any arithmetic progression a + b, a + 2b, . . . , a + nb is a polynomial in na+ n(n+ 1)b/2. The coefficients of these polynomials are given in terms of the Bernoulli polynomials. Following Knuth’s approach by using the central factorial...