Covering numbers for characters of symmetric groups

Abstract: If

n > 4

and

c (h e t a)

denotes the set of irreducible constituents of a character

h e t a

, then

c (c h i^{k}) = m I r r (S_{n})

for all nonlinear

c h i i n m I r r (S_{n})

if and only if

k g e q n - 1

.

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