Minimal bar tableaux

DOI10.1007/S00026-005-0257-3MaRDI QIDQ2571019zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Clifford

Publication date 2 November 2005

Published in Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0311418

zbMATH Keywords

ranksymmetric functionsbar tableaustrip tableaushifted partitionshifted shapeprojective characternegative character

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Projective representations and multipliers (20C25)

Abstract: Motivated by Stanley's results in cite{St02}, we generalize the rank of a partition $lambda$ to the rank of a shifted partition $S(lambda)$. We show that the number of bars required in a minimal bar tableau of $S(lambda)$ is max$(o,e+(ell(lambda)mathrmmod2))$, where $o$ and $e$ are the number of odd and even rows of $lambda$. As a consequence we show that the irreducible projective characters of $S_n$ vanish on certain conjugacy classes. Another corollary is a lower bound on the degree of the terms in the expansion of Schur's $Q_{lambda}$ symmetric functions in terms of the power sum symmetric functions.

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