Hook lengths in a skew Young diagram (Q1378517)

Summary: \textit{A. Regev} and \textit{A. Versik} [Electron. J. Comb. 4, No. 1, Research paper R22, 12 p. (1997; Zbl 0885.05110)] have obtained some properties of the set of hook lengths for certain skew Young diagrams, using asymptotic calculations of character degrees. They also conjectured a stronger form of one of their results. We give a simple inductive proof of this conjecture. Very recently, \textit{A. Regev} and \textit{D. Zeilberger} [Ann. Comb., to appear] have independently proved this conjecture.