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Polynomial Induction and the Restriction Problem

Representation Theory 2021-12-17 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We construct the polynomial induction functor, which is the right adjoint to the restriction functor from the category of polynomial representations of a general linear group to the category of representations of its Weyl group. This construction leads to a representation-theoretic proof of Littlewood's plethystic formula for the multiplicity of an irreducible representation of the symmetric group in such a restriction. The unimodality of certain bipartite partition functions follows.

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@article{arxiv.2004.03928,
  title  = {Polynomial Induction and the Restriction Problem},
  author = {Sridhar P. Narayanan and Digjoy Paul and Amritanshu Prasad and Shraddha Srivastava},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03928},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages

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