Combinatorial expansions for families of non-commutative k-Schur   functions
  We apply down operators in the affine nilCoxeter algebra to yield explicit combinatorial expansions for certain families of non-commutative k-Schur functions. This yields a combinatorial interpretation for a new family of k-Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. 
Chris Berg, Franco Saliola, Luis Serrano
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