Symmetrizing tableaux and the 5th case of the Foulkes conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JSC.2016.09.002zbMATH Open1486.20063arXiv1509.03944OpenAlexW2963348242WikidataQ123298992 ScholiaQ123298992MaRDI QIDQ1711999FDOQ1711999

Authors: Christian Ikenmeyer, Sevak Mkrtchyan, Man-Wai Mandy Cheung 

Publication date: 21 January 2019

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Foulkes conjecture states that the multiplicities in the plethysm Sym^a(Sym^b V) are at most as large as the multiplicities in the plethysm Sym^b(Sym^a V) for all a <= b. This conjecture has been known to be true for a <= 4. The main result of this paper is its verification for a = 5. This is achieved by performing a combinatorial calculation on a computer and using a propagation theorem of Tom McKay from 2008. Moreover, we obtain a complete representation theoretic decomposition of the vanishing ideal of the 5th Chow variety in degree 5, we show that there are no degree 5 equations for the 6th Chow variety, and we also find some representation theoretic degree 6 equations for the 6th Chow variety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03944

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zbMATH Keywords

plethysmChow varietyFoulkes conjecturerepresentation theory of the symmetric groupFoulkes-Howe conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to group theory (20-08)

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