Schur polynomial
A Schur polynomial is a special symmetric polynomial associatedto a partition of an integer, or equivalently to a Young diagram.Schur polynomials also have a power series generalization
, theSchur functions.
First we define some notation. Let be a partition of ,and let be a filling of the Young diagram for . Then by we mean the monomial
where is the number of times the number appears in thefilling . Since only has finitely many boxes, the product isfinite. For example, let , and let be thefilling