Plancherel averages: remarks on a paper by Stanley (Q2380477)

Summary: Let \(M_n\) stand for the Plancherel measure on \(\mathbb Y_n\), the set of Young diagrams with \(n\) boxes. A recent result of R. P. Stanley [''Some combinatorial properties of hook lengths, contents, and parts of partitions'', arXiv:0807.0383v3] says that for certain functions \(G\) defined on the set \(\mathbb Y\) of all Young diagrams, the average of \(G\) with respect to \(M_n\) depends on \(n\) polynomially. We propose two other proofs of this result together with a generalization to the Jack deformation of the Plancherel measure.