Cyclic sieving, necklaces, and branching rules related to Thrall's problem (Q1630894)

Summary: We show that the cyclic sieving phenomenon of Reiner-Stanton-White together with necklace generating functions arising from work of \textit{A. A. Klyachko} [Sib. Math. J. 15, 914--920 (1975; Zbl 0325.15018)] offer a remarkably unified, direct, and largely bijective approach to a series of results due to \textit{W. Kraśkiewicz} and \textit{J. Weyman} [Bayreuther Math. Schr. 63, 265--284 (2001; Zbl 1037.20012)], \textit{J. R. Stembridge} [Pac. J. Math. 140, No. 2, 353--396 (1989; Zbl 0641.20011)], and \textit{M. Schocker} [J. Aust. Math. Soc. 75, No. 1, 9--21 (2003; Zbl 1037.20013)] related to the so-called higher Lie modules and branching rules for inclusions \( C_a \wr S_b \hookrightarrow S_{ab} \). Extending the approach gives monomial expansions for certain graded Frobenius series arising from a generalization of Thrall's problem.