Duality between Quasi-Symmetrical Functi
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C. Malvenuto; C. Reutenauer
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Article
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1995
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The ring QSym of quasi-symmetric functions is naturally the dual of the Solomon descent algebra. The product and the two coproducts of the first (extending those of the symmetric functions) correspond to a coproduct and two products of the second, which are defined by restriction from the symmetric