New identities for theta operators

Abstract

In this article, we prove a new general identity involving the Theta operators introduced by the first author, Iraci, and Vanden Wyngaerd [Adv. Math. 376 (2021), p.59]. From this result, we can easily deduce several new identities that have combinatorial consequences in the study of Macdonald polynomials and diagonal coinvariants. In particular, we provide a unifying framework from which we recover many identities scattered in the literature, often resulting in drastically shorter proofs.