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Restriction of characters to subgroups of wreath products and basic sets for the symmetric group

Representation Theory 2019-08-12 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we give the decomposition into irreducible characters of the restriction to the wreath product Zp1Sw\mathbb{Z}_{p-1} \wr \mathfrak{S}_w of any irreducible character of (ZpZp1)Sw(\mathbb{Z}_p \rtimes \mathbb{Z}_{p-1}) \wr \mathfrak{S}_w, where pp is any odd prime, w0w \geq 0 is an integer, and Zp\mathbb{Z}_p and Zp1\mathbb{Z}_{p-1} denote the cyclic groups of order pp and p1p-1 respectively. This answers the question of how to decompose the restrictions to pp-regular elements of irreducible characters of the symmetric group Sn\mathfrak{S}_n in the Z\mathbb{Z}-basis corresponding to the pp-basic set of Sn\mathfrak{S}_n described by Brunat and Gramain in [1]. The result is given in terms of the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for the symmetric group.

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@article{arxiv.1908.03474,
  title  = {Restriction of characters to subgroups of wreath products and basic sets for the symmetric group},
  author = {Jean-Baptiste Gramain and Adriana Marciuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03474},
  year   = {2019}
}