Quasi-shuffle products

dc.creatorHoffman, Michael E.
dc.date1999-07-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:30:05Z
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dc.descriptionGiven a locally finite graded set A and a commutative, associative operation on A that adds degrees, we construct a commutative multiplication * on the set of noncommutative polynomials in A which we call a quasi-shuffle product; it can be viewed as a generalization of the shuffle product. The resulting commutative algebra can be given the structure of a Hopf algebra (_A_,*,Delta). In the case where A is the set of positive integers and the operation on A is addition, (_A_,*,Delta) is the Hopf algebra of quasi-symmetric functions. If rational coefficients are allowed, there is a Hopf algebra isomorphism exp from the shuffle Hopf algebra on A onto (_A_,*,Delta). We discuss the dual of (_A_,*,Delta), and define a deformation *_q of * that coincides with * when q = 1 and is isomorphic to the concatenation product when q is not a root of unity. Finally, we discuss various examples of this construction.
dc.description18 pages. See also http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/math/meh/research.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907173
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907173
dc.identifierJ. Algebraic Combin. 11 (2000), 49-68.
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/78883
dc.subjectQuantum Algebra
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject16W30 (Primary); 05E05 (Secondary)
dc.titleQuasi-shuffle products
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