English

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 GLt\mathrm{GL}_t. Viewing the symmetric group St\mathfrak{S}_t as a subgroup of GLt\mathrm{GL}_t, we may restrict Schur modules to St\mathfrak{S}_t and decompose the result into a direct sum of Specht modules, the irreducible representations of St\mathfrak{S}_t. We give an equivariant M\"{o}bius inversion formula that we use to invert this expansion in the representation ring for St\mathfrak{S}_t for tt 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}
}