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Young projectors in Fulton and Harris
In Section 4 of Fulton and Harris' book Representation Theory, they give the definition of a Young tableau of shape $\lambda = (\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_k)$ and then define two subgroups of $S_d$, the ...
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Characters of the symmetric group corresponding to partitions into two parts
Let $n\in\mathbb N$ be a natural number and $\lambda=(a,b)\vdash n$ a partition of $n$ into two parts, i.e. $a\ge b$ and $a+b=n$. In this special case, is there a simple description of the character $\...