As far as I understand, what you call $f_P$ is usually called monomial symmetric function as is denoted $m_P$. So I interpret your question as asking for an algorithm converting monomial symmetric funtions to power sum symmetric functions. Such an algorithm seems to be described here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4656270/ Also there is one which was implemented in [Symmetrica][1] (which is the one used in Sagemath) more than twenty years ago. I don't think the algorithm was documented anywhere but as a comment in the code (the file is called `tmp.c`) . The comment seems to indicate that they use a recursive divide and conquer method using the following recursion step: $$ m_{a_1,a_2,...,a_n,a_{n+1},...a_{2n}} = m_{a_1,...,a_n} * m_{a_{n+1},..,a_{2n}} - \text{terms of length} <2n $$ You can compute the rest of the terms using [this answer][2]. Anyway, unless you really need to say something about the algorithm, I would recommend using a computer algebra system which already has this algorithm implemented. [1]: http://www.algorithm.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/SYMMETRICA/ "Symmetrica" [2]: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/395842/decomposition-of-products-of-monomial-symmetric-polynomials-into-sums-of-them