Flipclasses and Combinatorial Invariance for Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials

Abstract

In this work, we investigate a novel approach to the Combinatorial Invariance Conjecture of Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials for the symmetric group. Using the new concept of flipclasses, we introduce some combinatorial invariants of intervals in the symmetric group whose analysis leads us to a recipe to compute the coefficients of $q^h$ of the Kazhdan--Lusztig $\widetilde{R}$-polynomials, for $h\leq 6$. This recipe depends only on the isomorphism class (as a poset) of the interval indexing the polynomial and thus provides new evidence for the Combinatorial Invariance Conjecture.