Ramanujan sums and rectangular power sums

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2023.107575MaRDI QIDQ6199041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Shareshian, Sheila Sundaram

Publication date 23 February 2024

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12007

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic functionFoulkes representationpower sumRamanujan sumSchur positivityvon Sterneck function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Integral representations of finite groups (20C10)

Abstract: For a fixed nonnegative integer $u$ and positive integer $n$, we investigate the symmetric function [sum_{d|n} left(c_d( frac{n}{d}) ight)^u p_d^{ frac{n}{d}},] where $p_n$ denotes the $n$th power sum symmetric function, and $c_d(r)$ is a Ramanujan sum, equal to the sum of the $r$th powers of all the primitive $d$th roots of unity. We establish the Schur positivity of these functions for $u=0$ and $u=1$, showing that, in each case, the associated representation of the symmetric group $mathfrak{S}_n$ decomposes into a sum of Foulkes representations, that is, representations induced from the irreducibles of the cyclic subgroup generated by the long cycle. We also conjecture Schur positivity for the case $u=2$.

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