On conjugacy classes of $S_n$ containing all irreducibles
Abstract
It is shown that for the conjugation action of the symmetric group when or all -irreducibles appear as constituents of a single conjugacy class, namely, one indexed by a partition of with at least two parts, whose parts are all distinct and taken from the set of odd primes and 1. The following simple characterisation of conjugacy classes containing all irreducibles is proved: If the partition of indexes a global conjugacy class for if and only if it has at least two parts, and all its parts are odd and distinct.
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@article{arxiv.1607.08581,
title = {On conjugacy classes of $S_n$ containing all irreducibles},
author = {Sheila Sundaram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08581},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
16 pages, 22 figures. Minor corrections in proofs. Added Theorem 5.1, which completely characterises the global conjugacy classes in $S_n$ (Conjecture 2 of original paper was subsequently proved by J. Swanson, and is now Proposition 5.2)