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On characters of the symmetric group: Part 1

Given an integer partition $\lambda$, denote $\ell(\lambda)=$ length, $\vert\lambda\vert=$ size and $\lambda=$ conjugate of $\lambda$. Allow to write $\lambda\vdash n$ either as $(\lambda_1,\dots,\...
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What is $\dim D^{\lambda}$ for the symmetric group?

What are the dimensions of the simple modules $D^{\lambda}=S^{\lambda}/S^{\lambda}\cap (S^{\lambda})^{\perp}$ for the modular representation theory of $S_n$, i.e. $\operatorname{char}(k)=p>0$? I ...
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Asymptotics for number of $p$-regular partitions of $n$

The number of simple modules $D^{\lambda}=S^{\lambda}/S^{\lambda}\cap (S^{\lambda})^{\bot}$ of the symmetric group over a field $k$ such that $\text{char}(k)=p > 0$ is the number of $p$-regular ...
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Upper bound on decomposition numbers for the symmetric group in a block of weight $w$

The $p$-blocks of the symmetric group $S_n$ are labelled by pairs $(\gamma, w)$ where $\gamma$ is a $p$-core partition, $w \in \mathbb{N}_0$ is the weight of the block, and $|\gamma| + p w = n$. ...
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When are immanants irreducible?

For a partition $\lambda$ let $\chi_\lambda$ be the corresponding irreducible representation of the symmetric group $S_n$. Let $\mathrm{Imm}_\lambda(x) = \sum\limits_{\pi \in S_n} \chi_\lambda(\pi) x_{...
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What is the $p$-regular partition corresponding to the sign representation of $S_{n}$ over a field of characteristic $p$?

I'm now interested in the modular representation of symmetric groups. It is well-known that for a fixed prime $p$, there is a bijection between the irreducible representations of $S_{n}$ over a field ...
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Hurwitz numbers and $t$-cores

For integers $k \geq 0$ and $d \geq 1$ let $H(k,d)$ be the Hurwitz number which, for the purposes of this posting, will be defined by: \begin{equation} H(k,d) \, := \ d! \, \sum_{\lambda \, \vdash d}...
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The number of permutations of a given cycle type that fix a string with a given histogram

Let $\lambda$ and $\mu$ be partitions of some integer $n \geq 1$. Let $d$ be the number of parts in $\mu$ and let $\bar{\mu} \in \{1,\dotsc,d\}^n$ denote the string $1^{\mu_1} 2^{\mu_2} \dotsb d^{\...
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hooks and contents: Part II

This is a 2nd installment to my earlier MO question for which Mark Wildon furnished a clean answer. $\mathcal{O}(\pi)$ and $\mathcal{E}(\pi)$ stand for the number of odd and even cycles of a ...
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hooks and contents: Part I

For a cell $\square$ in the Young diagram of a partition $\lambda$, let $h_{\square}$ and $c_{\square}$ denote the hook length and content of $\square$, respectively. R Stanley proved the following ...
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sum over all integer partitions, of the product of the factorials of the terms

I'm looking for something making tractable the sum, over all partitions into k terms of an integer n, of the product of the factorials of all the terms. Thanks,
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Adding a row to a Young Tableau via Novelli-Pak-Stoyanovskii

Let $T_{\lambda}$ be the set of standard young tableaux (SYT) of shape $\lambda_1\geq \lambda_2\cdots\geq \lambda_n$. Now consider pushing a row $\mu$ with $\mu\geq \lambda_1$ onto $Y$ to give shape $\...
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A product identity for partitions

For a partition $\lambda=(\lambda_1\ge \lambda_2\ge \dots)$, let $m_\lambda=\prod_i (\lambda_i-\lambda_{i+1})!$ be the product of factorials of consecutive differences and let $v_\lambda=\prod_{i | \...
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Partitions limit shape and LDP

Hello! I am trying to understand the paper of Dembo-Vershik-Zeitouni, Large deviations for integer partitions. I am only interested in Theorem 2, which deals with the case of the uniform distribution....