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On compound permutation matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

A. C. Aitken
A. C. Aitken
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The Mathematical Institute, The University, Edinburgh, 1.
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In an earlier paper1 the author investigated the relation existing between the induced matrices of a group of permutation matrices and the table of group characters of the irreducible representations of the corresponding symmetric group. It was found that the traces of a particular set of induced matrices sufficed to give, by a relatively simple transformation, the complete table of characters.It was remarked also that for n > 4 the set of compound matrices of permutation matrices, on the other hand, could at most provide only part of the table; for in fact the number of compounds, n + 1. is then less than P (n), the numbe'r of partitions of n. For this reason the subject was not pursued into further detail.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1946 , pp. 196 - 203
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1946

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