Irreducible representations of the symmetric groups from slash homologies of p-complexes

DOI10.5802/ALCO.153MaRDI QIDQ6329610arXivFDO

Authors Aaron Chun Shing Chan, William P. Wong

Publication date 21 November 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: In the 40s, Mayer introduced a construction of (simplicial) $p$-complex by using the unsigned boundary map and taking coefficients of chains modulo $p$. We look at such a $p$-complex associated to an $(n-1)$-simplex; in which case, this is also a $p$-complex of representations of the symmetric group of rank $n$ - specifically, of permutation modules associated to two-row compositions. In this article, we calculate the so-called slash homology - a homology theory introduced by Khovanov and Qi - of such a $p$-complex. We show that every non-trivial slash homology group appears as an irreducible representation associated to two-row partitions, and how this calculation leads to a basis of these irreducible representations given by the so-called $p$-standard tableaux.

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