Specht modules decompose as alternating sums of restrictions of Schur modules
Representation Theory
2020-03-05 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
Schur modules give the irreducible polynomial representations of the general linear group . Viewing the symmetric group as a subgroup of , we may restrict Schur modules to and decompose the result into a direct sum of Specht modules, the irreducible representations of . We give an equivariant M\"{o}bius inversion formula that we use to invert this expansion in the representation ring for for large. In addition to explicit formulas in terms of plethysms, we show the coefficients that appear alternate in sign by degree. In particular, this allows us to define a new basis of symmetric functions whose structure constants are stable Kronecker coefficients and which expand with alternating signs into the Schur basis.
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@article{arxiv.1809.10125,
title = {Specht modules decompose as alternating sums of restrictions of Schur modules},
author = {Sami H. Assaf and David E. Speyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10125},
year = {2020}
}