An explicit model for the complex representations of \(S_ n\) (Q909782)
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An explicit model for the complex representations of \(S_ n\) (English)
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1990
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The authors provide the following elegant construction of the model character (the sum of all the irreducibles) for the symmetric group, in terms of plethysms and using the Littlewood-Richardson rule: \[ \sum_{\alpha \vdash n}[\alpha]=\sum_{0\leq k\leq n/2}([2]\odot [k])[1^{n-2k}]. \]
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model character
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symmetric group
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plethysms
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Littlewood-Richardson rule
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