Kronecker products, characters, partitions, and the tensor square conjectures

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.11.002zbMATH Open1328.05199arXiv1304.0738OpenAlexW2963488997WikidataQ123017015 ScholiaQ123017015MaRDI QIDQ900863FDOQ900863

Authors: Igor Pak, Greta Panova, Ernesto Vallejo 

Publication date: 23 December 2015

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the remarkable Saxl conjecture which states that tensor squares of certain irreducible representations of the symmetric groups S_n contain all irreducibles as their constituents. Our main result is that they contain representations corresponding to hooks and two row Young diagrams. For that, we develop a new sufficient condition for the positivity of Kronecker coefficients in terms of characters, and use combinatorics of rim hook tableaux combined with known results on unimodality of certain partition functions. We also present connections and speculations on random characters of S_n.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0738

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zbMATH Keywords

integer partitionsKronecker coefficientstensor squaresirreducible representations of the symmetric groupsymmetric group characters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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