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Some combinatorial results involving shifted Young diagrams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. O. Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3BZ
A. K. Yaseen
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3BZ

Extract

In [6] the first author introduced some combinatorial concepts involving Young diagrams corresponding to partitions with distinct parts and applied them to the projective representations of the symmetric group Sn. A conjecture concerning the p-block structure of the projective representations of Sn was formulated in terms of these concepts which corresponds to the well-known, but long proved, Nakayama ‘conjecture’ for the p-block structure of the linear representations of Sn. This conjecture has recently been proved by Humphreys [1].

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1986

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