A Differential Operator for Symmetric Functions and the Combinatorics of Multiplying Transpositions

DOI10.2307/2154724zbMath0805.05086OpenAlexW4237497331MaRDI QIDQ4305911

Ian P. Goulden

Publication date: 26 January 1995

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2154724

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groupirreducible charactersdifferential operatorsymmetric functionstranspositionsbinomial coefficientsalternating sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Symmetric groups (20B30)

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