Symmetric group characters as symmetric functions

By Rosa C. Orellana, Mike Zabrocki. 2015

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We introduce a basis of the symmetric functions that evaluates to the (irreducible) characters of the symmetric group, just as the Schur functions evaluate to the irreducible characters of $GL_n$ modules. Our main result gives three different characterizations for this basis. One of the characterizations shows that the structure coefficients for the (outer) product of these functions are the stable Kronecker coefficients. The results in this paper focus on developing the fundamental properties of this basis.

Subfields: Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics

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