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

DOI10.5802/ALCO.153arXiv1911.09303MaRDI QIDQ6329610FDOQ6329610

Authors: Aaron Chun Shing Chan, William P. Wong 

Publication date: 21 November 2019

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.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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