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#### Gamma-positivity of variations of Eulerian polynomials

Published 2017-02-22Version 1

An identity of Chung, Graham and Knuth involving binomial coefficients and Eulerian numbers motivates our study of a class of polynomials that we call binomial-Eulerian polynomials. These polynomials share several properties with the Eulerian polynomials. For one thing, they are $h$-polynomials of simplicial polytopes, which gives a geometric interpretation of the fact that they are palindromic and unimodal. A formula of Foata and Sch\"utzenberger shows that the Eulerian polynomials have a stronger property, namely $\gamma$-positivity, and a formula of Postnikov, Reiner and Williams does the same for the binomial-Eulerian polynomials. We obtain $q$-analogs of both the Foata-Sch\"utzenberger formula and an alternative to the Postnikov-Reiner-Williams formula, and we show that these $q$-analogs are specializations of analogous symmetric function identities. Algebro-geometric interpretations of these symmetric function analogs are presented.

Comments: 29 pages
Categories: math.CO
Subjects: 05A05, 05E05, 05E10, 05E45, 52B05
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