Algebraic combinatorics

Research

Combinatorics at the intersection of algebra and geometry.

My work includes Schubert polynomials, symmetric functions, Coxeter groups, insertion algorithms, and permutation statistics.

Publications & preprints

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Ordered by arXiv upload date, following my CV. * Undergraduate coauthor; graduate student coauthor at the time of writing.

  1. Odd shifted parking functions

    With Jesse Kim.

    2026 · Advances in Mathematics Volume 494, Article 110941 (21 pages).

    arXiv: Odd shifted parking functions
  2. Moments of permutations by cycle type

    With Brendon Rhoades.

    To appear, Forum of Mathematics Sigma

    arXiv: Moments of permutations by cycle type
  3. Type C K–Stanley symmetric functions and Kráskiewicz–Hecke insertion

    With Joshua Arroyo, Graham Hawkes and Jianping Pan.

    Submitted

    Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.89 (2025), 12 pp. (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    arXiv: Type C K–Stanley symmetric functions and Kráskiewicz–Hecke insertion
  4. Lenart's bijection via bumpless pipe dreams

    With A. Gregory.

    2022 · Electronic Journal of Combinatorics Volume 30, Issue 1 P1.24 pp. 1–18

    arXiv: Lenart's bijection via bumpless pipe dreams
  5. Three coloring via triangle counting

    With V. Vatter.

    2023 · Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, to appear

    arXiv: Three coloring via triangle counting
  6. Involutions under Bruhat order and labeled Motzkin Paths

    With M. Coopman.

    2022 · European Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 103, article 103513 pp. 1–7

    arXiv: Involutions under Bruhat order and labeled Motzkin Paths
  7. Bijecting hidden symmetries for skew staircase shapes

    With A. Morales, I. Pak, L. Serrano and N. Williams.

    2023 · Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 6, no. 4, pp. 1095-1118.

    arXiv: Bijecting hidden symmetries for skew staircase shapes
  8. On pattern avoidance in matchings and involutions

    With J. Fang* and J. Troyka.

    2022 · Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (2022) Volume 29, Issue 1 P1.39 pp. 1–22

    arXiv: On pattern avoidance in matchings and involutions
  9. Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials through ice

    With O. Pechenik and A. Weigandt.

    2022 · Advances in Mathematics, Volume 398, article 108228

    Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 85B, FPSAC 2021 #5 pp. 1–12 (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    arXiv: Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials through ice
  10. Involution pipe dreams

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2022 · Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Volume 74, Issue 5 pp. 1310–1346

    Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 82B, FPSAC 2019 12 pp. (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    arXiv: Involution pipe dreams
  11. Wronskian Appell polynomials and symmetric functions

    With N. Bonneux, J. Stembridge and M. Stevens.

    2019 · Advances in Applied Mathematics, Volume 111, Article 101932, pp. 1–18

    arXiv: Wronskian Appell polynomials and symmetric functions
  12. Derivatives of Schubert polynomials and proof of a conjecture of Stanley

    With O. Pechenik, D. Speyer and A. Weigandt.

    2020 · Algebraic Combinatorics (2020) Volume 3, Issue 2 pp. 301–307

    arXiv: Derivatives of Schubert polynomials and proof of a conjecture of Stanley
  13. Pattern avoidance and quasisymmetric functions

    With B. Pawlowski and B. Sagan.

    2020 · Algebraic Combinatorics (2020) Volume 3, Issue 2 pp. 365–388

    arXiv: Pattern avoidance and quasisymmetric functions
  14. Weak order and descents for monotone triangles

    With V. Reiner.

    2020 · European Journal of Combinatorics (2020) Volume 86, article 103083, pp. 1–21.

    arXiv: Weak order and descents for monotone triangles
  15. Atoms for signed permutations

    With E. Marberg.

    2021 · European Journal of Combinatorics (2021) Volume 94, article 103288, pp. 1–40.

    arXiv: Atoms for signed permutations
  16. Involution Schubert-Coxeter combinatorics (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2017 · Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 78B, FPSAC 2017, pp. 1–12. summarizes 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10

  17. Fixed-point-free involutions and Schur P-positivity

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2020 · Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 65–110

    arXiv: Fixed-point-free involutions and Schur P-positivity
  18. Schur P-positivity and involution Stanley symmetric functions

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2019 · International Mathematics Research Notices Volume 2019, Issue 17, pp. 5389–5440

    arXiv: Schur P-positivity and involution Stanley symmetric functions
  19. Transition formulas for involution Schubert polynomials

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2018 · Selecta Mathematica, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp. 2991–3025

    arXiv: Transition formulas for involution Schubert polynomials
  20. Doppelgängers: bijections of plane partitions

    With R. Patrias, O. Pechenik and N. Williams.

    2020 · International Mathematics Research Notices, Volume 2020, Issue 2 pp. 487–540

    arXiv: Doppelgängers: bijections of plane partitions
  21. Involution words II: braid relations and atomic structures

    With E. Marberg and B. Pawlowski.

    2016 · Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 44 , Number 4 pp. 1–43.

    arXiv: Involution words II: braid relations and atomic structures
  22. Shifted Hecke insertion and the K-theory of OG(n,2n+1)

    With A. Keilthy*, R. Patrias, L. Webster*, Y. Zhang* and S. Zhou*.

    2017 · Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, Volume 151, pp. 207–240

    Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 78B, FPSAC 2017, pp. 1–12 (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    arXiv: Shifted Hecke insertion and the K-theory of OG(n,2n+1)
  23. Subwords and plane partitions (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    With N. Williams.

    2015 · DMTCS Proceedings, FPSAC 2015, pp. 241–252

  24. Coxeter-Knuth graphs and a signed Little Map for the hyperoctahedral group

    With S. Billey, A. Roberts and B. Young.

    2014 · Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 21, Issue 4, P4.6 pp. 1–39

    arXiv: Coxeter-Knuth graphs and a signed Little Map for the hyperoctahedral group
  25. Relating Edelman-Greene insertion to the Little Map

    With B. Young.

    2014 · Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 40, Issue 3, pp 693-710.

    DMTCS Proceedings, FPSAC 2013, pp. 229-240 (peer reviewed extended abstract)

    arXiv: Relating Edelman-Greene insertion to the Little Map

Doctoral thesis

Bijective combinatorics of reduced decompositions

Dartmouth College, 2014 · Advisor: Peter Winkler

Defended May 2014. Comprised primarily of papers 1 and 2 above.

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