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Coefficients of symmetric polynomials

Hi everyone,

I want to get the coefficients of symmetric polynomials, and then make them a vector. I tried the following code:

Sym = SymmetricFunctions(QQ)
e = Sym.elementary()
g = e[2, 1] - 3*e[3]
g.coefficients()

The output is [1, -3], but my desired result is [0, 1, -3], where the zero is the coefficient of e[1, 1, 1]. I found this question get the coefficients from the polynomial, but it seems .coefficients(sparse=False) and .list() only work for the univariate polynomial ring. Thank you in advance for your answer and comments!

Coefficients of symmetric polynomials

Hi everyone,

I want to get the coefficients of symmetric polynomials, and then make them a vector. I tried the following code:

Sym = SymmetricFunctions(QQ)
e = Sym.elementary()
g = e[2, 1] - 3*e[3]
g.coefficients()

Edit: I would like to make some clarification about the desired result. What I want is a vector of dimension p(n) where p is the partition function. And each of its components is the coefficient of g under the basis e(part), where part ranges over all the partitions of n.