Character deflations and a generalization of the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule.

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2014-0023MaRDI QIDQ471852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Evseev, Rowena Paget, Mark Wildon

Publication date 17 November 2014

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0067

zbMATH Keywords

Littlewood-Richardson rulecharacter multiplicitiesirreducible characters of symmetric groupsirreducible constituentsMurnaghan-Nakayama ruledeflation mapsFoulkes conjecturerestricted characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: Given natural numbers m and n, we define a deflation map from the characters of the symmetric group S_{mn} to the characters of S_n. This map is obtained by first restricting a character of S_{mn} to the wreath product S_m wr S_n, and then taking the sum of the irreducible constituents of the restricted character on which the base group S_m imes ... imes S_m acts trivially. We prove a combinatorial formula which gives the values of the images of the irreducible characters of S_{mn} under this map. We also prove an analogous result for more general deflation maps in which the base group is not required to act trivially. These results generalize the Murnaghan--Nakayama rule and special cases of the Littlewood--Richardson rule. As a corollary we obtain a new combinatorial formula for the character multiplicities that are the subject of the long-standing Foulkes' Conjecture. Using this formula we verify Foulkes' Conjecture in some new cases.

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