CRM–ISM Postdoctoral Fellow

Tianyi Yu喻天奕

Algebraic Combinatorics

Postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec à Montréal

I study Schubert calculus and combinatorial K-theory, especially Grothendieck and Lascoux polynomials, bumpless pipedreams, and crystals.

Tianyi Yu seated beside a window at sunset

Research

We give a positive combinatorial formula for double Edelman--Greene coefficients, resolving a problem of Lam--Lee--Shimozono.

with Eric Marberg and Kam Hung Tong
Advances in Mathematics, 2026

We show that the generating functions of normal square root crystals are positive sums of symmetric Grothendieck polynomials, providing a tool for establishing Grothendieck positivity.

with Adam Gregory, Zachary Hamaker
Selecta Mathematica, accepted

We give a tableau formula for vexillary double Edelman--Greene coefficients that is manifestly Graham-positive.

with Daoji Huang and Mark Shimozono
Combinatorial Theory, accepted

Marked bumpless pipedreams and compatible pairs are two combinatorial models for Grothendieck polynomials. We construct a bijection between them.

International Mathematics Research Notices, 2025

We reinterpret bumpless pipedreams as Bruhat chains, paralleling Lenart and Sottile’s work on classical pipedreams. This yields a bumpless analogue of Fomin and Stanley’s algebraic construction.

with Chen-An Chou
European Journal of Combinatorics, 2025

We investigate Grothendieck polynomials labeled by inverse fireworks permutations. We introduce a combinatorial model for their top degree components and proved a conjecture on their support.

with Gidon Orelowitz
Combinatorial Theory, accepted

We give a tableau formula for the Lascoux expansion of a Lascoux polynomial times a stable Grothendieck polynomial.

with Chen-An Chou
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2024

We solve a problem of Pechenik, Speyer, and Weigandt on constructing the maximal pipedream that captures the leading monomial of the top-degree part of double Grothendieck polynomials.

Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2024

We construct an explicit Gröbner basis, with integer coefficients, for a family of ideals introduced by Sean Griffin that generalize the Delta Conjecture coinvariant rings and Springer fiber cohomology rings.

We relate Schubert polynomials and top Lascoux polynomials via a simple operator, showing they share structure constants. This connection uncovers several combinatorial properties of top Lascoux polynomials.

with Jianping Pan
Algebraic Combinatorics, 2024

We define a statistic on diagrams. It recovers the rajcode of Pechenik, Speyer, and Weigandt on Rothe diagrams and gives the leading monomial of top Lascoux polynomials on left-justified diagrams.

with Daoji Huang and Mark Shimozono
Combinatorial Theory, 2024

We introduce a row insertion algorithm on decreasing tableaux that generalizes Edelman–Greene row insertion, serving as a row analogue of Hecke column insertion.

with Jianping Pan
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2023

We prove a conjectural formula for Lascoux polynomials by Ross and Yong via a weight-preserving bijection between reverse set-valued tableaux and K-Kohnert diagrams.

We introduce a set-valued tableaux rule for Lascoux polynomials. We construct a new abstract Kashiwara crystal structure on set-valued tableaux.

with Mark Shimozono
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2023

We prove a conjecture of Reiner and Yong: giving a tableau formula for expanding a Grothendieck polynomial into Lascoux polynomials—analogous to the Schubert-to-key expansion.

with Brendon Rhoades and Zehong Zhao
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2020

We describe the harmonic space and construct a harmonic basis for a family of ideals introduced by Sean Griffin that generalizes the Delta Conjecture coinvariant rings and Springer fiber cohomology rings.

Talks

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2023
2022
2021