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The symmetric group $S_n$ is the group of permutations of the set of integers $\{1,\dots,n\}$. This has $n!$ elements and is generated by the $n-1$ involutions exchanging consecutive integers. The symmetric groups form the simplest family of Coxeter groups.

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Identity involving partitions coming from representations of alternating groups

This question got answered by Gjergji Zaimi and Richard Stanley in the comments. I simply reproduce their comments here as an answer: A very simple explanation for this identity comes from the theory …
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Identity involving partitions coming from representations of alternating groups

It is not difficult to show that the number of conjugacy classes in the alternating group $A_n$ is given by classes in the alternating group = no. of even partitions + no. of self-transpose partit …
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On the symmetric group of 2^n elements

These spaces are related to $2$-Sylow subgroups of $S_n$. For example, if $n=2^k$, then $X^n_{k+1}$ is the set of $2$-Sylow subgroups of $S_n$. To see this, note that $S_n$ acts transitively on $X^n_{ …
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Induced representation of a Young subgroup

The answer is a special case of Young's rule. In my book, I give a very simple method for the slightly easier case where $r=0$. In that case we have: $$ \mathrm{Ind}_{S_k\times S_l}^{S_n} = \bigoplus_ …
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Provoking involutions further

Define a standard bitableau of size $n$ to be a pair $(P_1, P_2)$ of standard tableaux of total size $n$ such that each of the integers $1,\dotsc, n$ occurs exactly once in either tableau. Then $I_2( …
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