Minimal and maximal constituents of twisted Foulkes characters

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDV070zbMATH Open1383.20012arXiv1409.6879OpenAlexW2209728445MaRDI QIDQ2801734FDOQ2801734

Authors: Rowena Paget, Mark Wildon 

Publication date: 21 April 2016

Published in: Journal of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove combinatorial rules that give the minimal and maximal partitions labelling the irreducible constituents of a family of characters for the symmetric group that generalize Foulkes permutation characters. Restated in the language of symmetric functions, our results determine all minimal and maximal partitions that label Schur functions appearing in the plethysms s_

u circ s_(m). As a corollary we prove two conjectures of Agaoka on the lexicographically least constituents of the plethysms s_ u circ s_(m) and s_

u circ s_(1^m).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6879

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zbMATH Keywords

Schur functionsminimal partitionsplethysmsFoulkes permutation charactersmaximal partitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• On Foulkes characters
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• GAP

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