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Divisibility of character values of the symmetric group by prime powers

Combinatorics 2025-02-05 v2 Number Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

Proving a conjecture of Miller, we show that as nn tends to infinity almost all entries in the character table of SnS_n are divisible by any given prime power. This extends our earlier work which treated divisibility by primes.

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@article{arxiv.2301.02203,
  title  = {Divisibility of character values of the symmetric group by prime powers},
  author = {Sarah Peluse and Kannan Soundararajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02203},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

In memory of Chandra Sekhar Raju. 17 pages, 3 figures; v2: referee suggestions incorporated