Cancelation free formula for the antipode of linearized Hopf monoid

TL;DR

This paper develops a cancelation free formula for the antipode of linearized Hopf monoids, providing new computational tools, connections to hypergraph orientations, and applications to permutation patterns, with extensions to q-deformations and geometry.

Contribution

It introduces a cancelation free, multiplicity free antipode formula for linearized Hopf monoids and explores its implications and special cases.

Findings

New antipode formula involving hypergraph acyclic orientations

Polynomials analogous to chromatic polynomials for permutations

Identities similar to Stanley's (-1)-color theorem

Abstract

Many combinatorial Hopf algebras $H$ in the literature are the functorial image of a linearized Hopf monoid $\bf H$. That is, $H={\mathcal K} ({\bf H})$ or $H=\overline{\mathcal K} ({\bf H})$. Unlike the functor $\overline{\mathcal K}$, the functor ${\mathcal K}$ applied to ${\bf H}$ may not preserve the antipode of ${\bf H}$. In this case, one needs to consider the larger Hopf monoid ${\bf L}\times{\bf H}$ to get $H={\mathcal K} ({\bf H})=\overline{\mathcal K}({\bf L}\times{\bf H})$ and study the antipode in ${\bf L}\times{\bf H}$. One of the main results in this paper provides a cancelation free and multiplicity free formula for the antipode of ${\bf L}\times{\bf H}$. From this formula we obtain a new antipode formula for $H$. We also explore the case when ${\bf H}$ is commutative and cocommutative. In this situation we get new antipode formulas that despite of not being cancelation free, can be used to obtain one for $\overline{\mathcal K}({\bf H})$ in some cases. We recover as well many of the well-known cancelation free formulas in the literature. One of our formulas for computing the antipode in ${\bf H}$ involves acyclic orientations of hypergraphs as the central tool. In this vein, we obtain polynomials analogous to the chromatic polynomial of a graph, and also identities parallel to Stanley's (-1)-color theorem. One of our examples introduces a {\it chromatic} polynomial for permutations which counts increasing sequences of the permutation satisfying a pattern. We also study the statistic obtained after evaluating such polynomial at $-1$. Finally, we sketch $q$ deformations and geometric interpretations of our results. This last part will appear in a sequel paper in joint work with J. Machacek.