Ramanujan sums and rectangular power sums
Combinatorics
2025-09-09 v2 Group Theory
Number Theory
Abstract
For a fixed nonnegative integer and positive integer , we investigate the symmetric function where denotes the th power sum symmetric function, and is a Ramanujan sum, equal to the sum of the th powers of all the primitive th roots of unity. We establish the Schur positivity of these functions for and , showing that, in each case, the associated representation of the symmetric group decomposes into a sum of Foulkes representations, that is, representations induced from the irreducibles of the cyclic subgroup generated by the long cycle. We also conjecture Schur positivity for the case .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2305.12007,
title = {Ramanujan sums and rectangular power sums},
author = {John Shareshian and Sheila Sundaram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.12007},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
17 pages, minor changes per referee report