Type $B$ fermionic coinvariant rings

Abstract

Let $\mathfrak{B}_n$ denote the hyperoctahedral group. The type $B$ coinvariant rings $R_{\mathfrak{B}_n}^{(k,j)}$ are quotients of the ring of polynomials in $k$ sets of $n$ commuting variables and $j$ sets of $n$ anticommuting variables by the ideal generated by the diagonal $\mathfrak{B}_n$-invariants without constant term. Building upon the work of Kim--Rhoades (2022), we give an explicit formula for the bigraded Frobenius series of $R_{\mathfrak{B}_n}^{(0,2)}$: the bigraded multiplicity of each irreducible $\mathfrak{B}_n$-character is a single Schur polynomial, so $R_{\mathfrak{B}_n}^{(0,2)}$ is multiplicity-free as a $\operatorname{GL}_2 \times \mathfrak{B}_n$-module. We then determine that the trigraded multiplicity of the sign character of $R_{\mathfrak{B}_n}^{(0,3)}$ is given by a single Schur function. Finally, for all $k$ and $j$, we determine the multiplicity of the standard character in the type $A$ coinvariant ring $R_{n}^{(k,j)}$, as well as the multiplicities of the characters indexed by the bipartitions $((n-1),(1))$ and $((n-1,1),\varnothing)$ in $R_{\mathfrak{B}_n}^{(k,j)}$. These are the first nontrivial characters established for all $(k,j)$ in either of types $A$ or $B$.