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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

On Trees and Characters

Avital Frumkin , Gordon James and Yuval Roichman

DOI: 10.1023/A:1025052922664

Abstract

A new family of trees, defined in term of Young diagrams, is introduced. Values of central characters of the symmetric group are represented as a weighted enumeration of such trees. The proof involves a new decomposition theorem for representations corresponding to general shapes.

Pages: 323–334

Keywords: symmetric groups; central characters

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