The diagonal derivative of a skew Schur polynomial

Abstract

We prove a formula for the image of a skew Schur polynomial $s_{\lambda/\mu}\left( x_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots, x_{N}\right) $ under the differential operator $\nabla:= \dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_{1}} +\dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_{2}}+\cdots+\dfrac{\partial}{\partial x_{N}}$. This generalizes a formula of Weigandt for $\nabla\left( s_{\lambda}\right) $.