Generalizing the notion of placing rooks on a Ferrers board leads to a new class of combinatorial models and a new class of rook polynomials. Connections are establishedwith absolu...
Givena Hermitian,non-negativede nitekernelK and a character of the symmetric group on n letters, de ne the corresponding immanant function K x1;::: ;xn := P Qn i=1 Kxi;x i, where ...