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On Foulkes characters

Representation Theory 2021-08-11 v4

Abstract

Orthogonality relations for Foulkes characters of full monomial groups are presented, along with three solutions to the problem of decomposing products of these characters, and new applications, including a product reformulation of a Markov chain for adding random numbers studied by Diaconis and Fulman, and a new proof of a theorem of Zagier which generalizes one of Harer and Zagier on the enumeration of Riemann surfaces of a given genus.

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@article{arxiv.2101.04672,
  title  = {On Foulkes characters},
  author = {Alexander R. Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04672},
  year   = {2021}
}
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