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Minimal and maximal constituents of twisted Foulkes characters

Paget, Rowena E., Wildon, Mark (2014) Minimal and maximal constituents of twisted Foulkes characters. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 93 (2). pp. 301-318. ISSN 0024-6107. (doi:10.1112/jlms/jdv070) (KAR id:43385)

Abstract

We prove combinatorial rules that give the minimal and maximal partitions labelling the irreducible constituents of a family of characters for the symmetric group that generalize Foulkes permutation characters. Restated in the language of symmetric functions, our results determine all minimal and maximal partitions that label Schur functions appearing in the plethysms $s_\nu \circ s_{(m)}$. As a corollary we prove

two conjectures of Agaoka on the lexicographically least constituents of the plethysms $s_\nu \circ s_{(m)}$ and $s_\nu \circ s_{(1^m)}$.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1112/jlms/jdv070
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA165 Combinatorics
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA171 Representation theory
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Rowena Paget
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2014 09:42 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 01:32 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/43385 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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