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Characters of odd degree of symmetric groups

Representation Theory 2017-05-17 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We construct a natural bijection between odd-degree irreducible characters of S_n and linear characters of its Sylow 2-subgroup P_n. When n is a power of 2, we show that such a bijection is nicely induced by the restriction functor. We conclude with a characterization of the irreducible characters \chi of S_n such that the restriction of \chi to P_n has a unique linear constituent.

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@article{arxiv.1601.03839,
  title  = {Characters of odd degree of symmetric groups},
  author = {Eugenio Giannelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.03839},
  year   = {2017}
}