Kronecker products of \(S_n\)-characters in hooks (Q5956268)

It is well-known that there is a one-to-one correpondence between partitions of the natural number \(n\) and the set of complex irreducible characters of the symmetric group \(S_n\). If \(\lambda\) is a partition of \(n\) then the corresponding irreducible character of \(S_n\) is denoted by \(\chi^\lambda\). Now if \(\mu\) is another partition of \(n\), then the tensor product \(\chi^\lambda\otimes\chi^\mu\) is a character of \(S_n\) and we have \(\chi^\lambda\otimes\chi^\mu=\sum_\nu m_\nu\chi^\nu\), where \(\nu\) runs over the set of all partitions of \(n\). Finding irreducible constituents \(\chi^\nu\) with positive coefficient is of great importance in the character theory of the symmetric group. In the paper under the review the authors prove theorems which guarantee the occurrence of \(\chi^\nu\) in the tensor product \(\chi^\lambda\otimes\chi^\nu\).