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Errata for Fulton's "Young tableaux"

Fulton's Young tableaux is one of the best texts on the subject, one which I often recommend and cite for reference. Unlike Fulton/Lang and Fulton/Harris, it is neither an early-dawn draft nor a ...
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Applications of Representation Theory in Combinatorics

What are the examples of interesting combinatorial identities (e.g. bijection between two sets of combinatorial objects) that can be proved using representation theory, or has some representation ...
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Smith Normal Form of a Cayley Graph of the Symmetric Group

Let $A_n$ be the adjacency matrix of the Cayley graph $\text{Cay}(S_n,C_n)$ where $C_n \subseteq S_n$ is the conjugacy class of $n$-cycles of the symmetric group $S_n$. Since the generating set of ...
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Generating function for $t$-residues of partitions using Heisenberg + $\hat{sl_t}$ representation theory

Recall that for $t\geq2$, a partition is a $t$-core if none of its hooklengths is divisible by $t$. It is known that the $t$-cores are parametrized by ${\mathbb Z}^{t-1}$. More precisely, let $(n_0,\...
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