The goal of this paper is to introduce and study noncommutative Catalan numbers $C_n$ which belong to the free Laurent polynomial algebra in $n$ generators. Our noncommutative numbers admit interesting (commutative and noncommutative) specializations, one of them related to Garsia-Haiman $(q,t
The aim of the paper is to attach a noncommutative cluster-like structure to each marked surface $Sigma$. This is a noncommutative algebra ${mathcal A}_Sigma$ generated by noncommutative geodesics between marked points subject to certain triangle relations and noncommutative analogues of Ptolemy-Plucker relations. It turns out that the algebra ${mathcal A}_Sigma$ exhibits a noncommutative Laurent Phenomenon with respect to any triangulation of $Sigma$, which confirms its cluster nature. As a surprising byproduct, we obtain a new topological invariant of $Sigma$, which is a free or a 1-relator group easily computable in terms of any triangulation of $Sigma$. Another application is the proof of Laurentness and positivity of certain discrete noncommutative integrable systems.
Given a permutation $f$, we study the positroid Catalan number $C_f$ defined to be the torus-equivariant Euler characteristic of the associated open positroid variety. We introduce a class of repetition-free permutations and show that the corresponding positroid Catalan numbers count Dyck paths avoiding a convex subset of the rectangle. We show that any convex subset appears in this way. Conjecturally, the associated $q,t$-polynomials coincide with the generalized $q,t$-Catalan numbers that recently appeared in relation to the shuffle conjecture, flag Hilbert schemes, and Khovanov-Rozansky homology of Coxeter links.
We explain the notion of $q$-deformed real numbers introduced in our previous work and overview their main properties. We will also introduce $q$-deformed Conway-Coxeter friezes.
The aim of this article is to give explicit formulae for various generating functions, including the generating function of torus-invariant primitive ideals in the big cell of the quantum minuscule grassmannian of type B_n.
We introduce an affine Schur algebra via the affine Hecke algebra associated to Weyl group of affine type C. We establish multiplication formulas on the affine Hecke algebra and affine Schur algebra. Then we construct monomial bases and canonical bases for the affine Schur algebra. The multiplication formula allows us to establish a stabilization property of the family of affine Schur algebras that leads to the modified version of an algebra ${mathbf K}^{mathfrak c}_n$. We show that ${mathbf K}^{mathfrak c}_n$ is a coideal subalgebra of quantum affine algebra ${bf U}(hat{mathfrak{gl}}_n)$, and $big({mathbf U}(hat{ mathfrak{gl}}_n), {mathbf K}^{mathfrak c}_n)$ forms a quantum symmetric pair. The modified coideal subalgebra is shown to admit monomial and stably canonical bases. We also formulate several variants of the affine Schur algebra and the (modified) coideal subalgebra above, as well as their monomial and canonical bases. This work provides a new and algebraic approach which complements and sheds new light on our previous geometric approach on the subject. In the appendix by four of the authors, new length formulas for the Weyl groups of affine classical types are obtained in a symmetrized fashion.