Characters of Brauer's centralizer algebras (Q1902046)

This paper, a portion of the author's doctoral dissertation, extends the methods for studying representations and irreducible characters of the symmetric group to the representations and irreducible characters of Brauer's centralizer algebras. The author defines analogues of conjugacy classes for the Brauer algebra, derives formulas for the irreducible characters of the Brauer algebras in terms of the irreducible characters of the symmetric groups, and gives a combinatorial rule for computing the irreducible characters of the Brauer algebras.