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What is the centralizer of a Young subgroup of $S_n$?
In their celebrated paper "A new approach to the representation theory of the symmetric group. II", Okounkov and Vershik prove that $Z(n-1,1)$, the centralizer of $\mathbb{C}[S_{n-1}]$ in $\...
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Number of Boolean algebra subintervals in weak order of $S_n$
I'm wondering if anybody has an easy way to compute the number of subintervals in weak order of $S_n$ (considered as a Coxeter group of type $A_{n-1}$) that are isomorphic to Boolean algebras. I know $...
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