Variations on the S_n-module Lie_n

MaRDI QIDQ6299552FDO

Authors Sheila Sundaram

Publication date 25 March 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We define, for each subset $S$ of primes, an $S_n$-module $Li{e}_n^S$ with interesting properties. When $S=emptyset,$ this is the well-known representation $Li{e}_n$ of $S_n$ afforded by the free Lie algebra. The most intriguing case is $S=2,$ giving a decomposition of the regular representation as a sum of {exterior} powers of modules $Li{e}_n^{(2)}.$ This is in contrast to the theorems of Poincar'e-Birkhoff-Witt and Thrall which decompose the regular representation into a sum of symmetrised $Lie$ modules. We show that nearly every known property of $Li{e}_n$ has a counterpart for the module $Li{e}_n^{(2)},$ suggesting connections to the cohomology of configuration spaces via the character formulas of Sundaram and Welker, to the Eulerian idempotents of Gerstenhaber and Schack, and to the Hodge decomposition of the complex of injective words arising from Hochschild homology, due to Hanlon and Hersh. For arbitrary $S,$ the symmetric and exterior powers of the module $Li{e}_n^S$ allow us to deduce Schur positivity for a new class of multiplicity-free sums of power sums.

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