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On Applications of the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule
The question is located below. In short, I am looking for an accessible explanation of the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule in relation to the following problem. Pardon the long setup.
Let $Y$ be a standard ...
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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 $\...