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Can the ring of symmetric polynomials be generated by powers of symmetric polynomials of deg...

Yes. For variables $x_1,\dots, x_k$, we have $$ \sum_{J \subseteq \{1,\dots, k \} } (-1)^{ k- |J|} \left(\sum_{j \in J} x_j\right)^k = k! x_1 \dots x_k $$ so that $$ e_k = \sum_{(i_1; \dots; i_k )\in …
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