Generating functions for fixed points of the Mullineux map
Abstract
Mullineux defined an involution on the set of -regular partitions of . When is prime, these partitions label irreducible symmetric group modules in characteristic . Mullineux's conjecture, since proven, was that this ``Mullineux map" described the effect on the labels of taking the tensor product with the one-dimensional signature representation. Counting irreducible modules fixed by this tensor product is related to counting irreducible modules for the alternating group in prime characteristic. In 1991, Andrews and Olsson worked out the generating function counting fixed points of Mullineux's map when is an odd prime (providing evidence in support of Mullineux's conjecture). In 1998, Bessenrodt and Olsson counted the fixed points in a -block of weight . We extend both results to arbitrary , and determine the corresponding generating functions. When is odd but not prime the extension is immediate, while even requires additional work and the results, which are different, have not appeared in the literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2402.03643,
title = {Generating functions for fixed points of the Mullineux map},
author = {David J. Hemmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03643},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
To appear, European Journal of Combinatorics