Published papers

We give a presentation of refined (dual) canonical Grothendieck polynomials and their skew versions using free fermions. Using this, we derive a number of identities, including the skew Cauchy identities, branching rules, expansion formulas, and integral formulas.

We study the generalized ultradiscrete periodic Toda lattice J(M, N) which has tropical spectral curve. We introduce a tropical analogue of Fay's trisecant identity, and apply it to construct a general solution to J(M, N).

This paper presents a study of the discrete Toda equation that was introduced in 1977. In this paper, it is proved that the determinantal solution of the discrete Toda equation, obtained via the Lax formalism, is naturally related to the dual Grothendieck polynomials, a K-theoretic generalization of the Schur polynomials. A tropical permanent solution to the ultradiscrete Toda equation is also derived. The proposed method gives a tropical algebraic representation of the static solitons. Lastly, a new cellular automaton realization of the ultradiscrete Toda equation is proposed.

We study a two-dimensional box-ball system which is an ultradiscrete analogue of the discrete KP equation. We construct an algorithm to calculate the fundamental cycle, which is an important conserved quantity of the two-dimensional box-ball system with periodic boundary condition, by using the tropical curve theory.

We present a new characterization of the shape equivalent class and the Littlewood-Richardson correspondence of Young tableaux in terms of tropical (ultradiscrete) integrable systems. As an application, an alternative proof of the "shape change theorem" is given.

A solution for an initial value problem of the box and ball system is constructed from a solution of the periodic box and ball system. The construction is done through a specific limiting process based on the theory of tropical geometry. This method gives a tropical analogue of the Krichever construction, which is an algebro-geometric method to construct exact solutions to integrable systems, for the non-periodic system.

A periodic box-ball system (pBBS) is obtained by ultradiscretizing the periodic discrete Toda equation (pd Toda equation). We show the relation between a Young diagram of the pBBS and a spectral curve of the pd Toda equation. The formula for the fundamental cycle of the pBBS is obtained as a corollary.

We present a free-fermionic presentation of the skew (dual) stable Grothendieck polynomials. A direct proof of their determinantal formulas is given from this presentation. We also introduce a combinatorial method to describe the multiplication map and its adjoint over the space of skew (dual) stable Grothendieck polynomials. This calculation requires the use of noncommutative supersymmetric Schur functions.

In this paper we study algebraic and combinatorial properties of symmetric Grothendieck polynomials and their dual polynomials by means of the boson-fermion correspondence. We show that these symmetric functions can be expressed as a vacuum expectation value of some operator that is written in terms of free-fermions. By using the free-fermionic expressions, we obtain alternative proofs of determinantal formulas and Pieri type formulas.

In this article we study holomorphic integrals on tropical plane curves in view of ultradiscretization. We prove that the lattice integrals over tropical curves can be obtained as a certain limit of complex integrals over Riemann surfaces.

We show a new neutral-fermionic presentation of Ikeda-Naruse’s K-theoretic Q-functions, which represent a Schubert class in the K-theory of coherent sheaves on the Lagrangian Grassmannian. Our presentation provides a simple description and yields a straightforward proof of two types of Pfaffian formulas for them. We present a dual space of GΓ, the vector space generated by all K-theoretic Q-functions, by constructing a non-degenerate bilinear form which is compatible with the neutral-fermionic presentation. We give a new family of dual K-theoretic Q-functions, their neutral-fermionic presentations, and Pfaffian formulas.

We construct the theta function solution to the initial value problem for the generalized periodic discrete Toda equation.

A box-ball system with more than one kind of ball is obtained by the generalized periodic discrete Toda equation (pd Toda equation). We present an algebraic geometric study of the periodic Toda equation. The time evolution of the pd Toda equation is linearized on the Picard group of an algebraic variety, and theta function solutions are obtained.

Multi-Schur functions are symmetric functions that generalize the supersymmetric Schur functions, the flagged Schur functions, and the refined dual Grothendieck functions, which have been intensively studied by Lascoux. In this paper, we give a new free-fermionic presentation of them. The multi-Schur functions are indexed by a partition and two “tuples of tuples” of indeterminates. We construct a family of linear bases of the fermionic Fock space that are indexed by such data and prove that they correspond to the multi-Schur functions through the boson-fermion correspondence. By focusing on some special bases, which we call refined bases, we give a straightforward method of expanding a multi-Schur function in the refined dual Grothendieck polynomials. We also present a sufficient condition for a multi-Schur function to have its Hall-dual function in the completed ring of symmetric functions.

Abstract In this article, we study tropical-theoretic aspects of the ‘rectification algorithm’ on skew Young tableaux. It is shown that the algorithm is interpreted as a time evolution of some tropical integrable system. By using this fact, we construct a new combinatorial map that is essentially equivalent to the rectification algorithm. Some of properties of the rectification can be seen more clearly via this map. For example, the uniqueness of a rectification boils down to an easy combinatorial problem. Our method is mainly based on the two previous researches: the theory of geometric tableaux by Noumi–Yamada, and the study on the relationship between jeu de taquin slides and the ultradiscrete KP equation by Mikami and Katayama–Kakei.

Abstract The K-homology ring of the affine Grassmannian of $SL_{n}(\mathbb{C})$ was studied by Lam, Schilling, and Shimozono. It is realized as a certain concrete Hopf subring of the ring of symmetric functions. On the other hand, for the quantum K-theory of the flag variety $F\,\! l_{n}$, Kirillov and Maeno provided a conjectural presentation based on the results obtained by Givental and Lee. We construct an explicit birational morphism between the spectrums of these two rings. Our method relies on Ruijsenaars’s relativistic Toda lattice with unipotent initial condition. From this result, we obtain a K-theory analogue of the so-called Peterson isomorphism for (co)homology. We provide a conjecture on the detailed relationship between the Schubert bases, and, in particular, we determine the image of Lenart–Maeno’s quantum Grothendieck polynomial associated with a Grassmannian permutation.

We present an expression for the solution to the initial value problem for the ultradiscrete periodic Toda equation. The expression provides explicit forms of all dependent variables of the equation, while the previously known solutions give only half of the dependent variables while the others have to be determined implicitly using the conserved quantities.