Bijective proofs of character evaluations using the trace forest of jeu de taquin

zbMATH Open1326.05166arXiv1403.5697MaRDI QIDQ896780FDOQ896780

W. Fang

Publication date: 14 December 2015

Published in: Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Irreducible characters in the symmetric group are of special interest in combinatorics. They can be expressed either combinatorially with ribbon tableaux, or algebraically with contents. In this paper, these two expressions are related in a combinatorial way. We first introduce a fine structure in the famous jeu de taquin called "trace forest", with which we are able to count certain types of ribbon tableaux, leading to a simple bijective proof of a character evaluation formula in terms of contents that dates back to Frobenius (1901). Inspired by this proof, we give an inductive scheme that gives combinatorial proofs to more complicated formulae for characters in terms of contents.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5697

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducible characters of a symmetric group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Symmetric groups (20B30)

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• Enumerative combinatorics. Abstracts from the workshop held December 11--17, 2022

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