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

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2014-0023zbMATH Open1331.20013arXiv1202.0067OpenAlexW2964023478MaRDI QIDQ471852FDOQ471852

Authors: Anton Evseev, Rowena Paget, Mark Wildon 

Publication date: 17 November 2014

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

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.

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

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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)

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