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Stanley's character polynomials and coloured factorizations in the symmetric group

Combinatorics 2007-12-21 v2 Representation Theory

Abstract

Stanley introduces polynomials which help evaluate symmetric group characters and conjectures that the coefficients of the polynomials are positive. Stanley later gives a conjectured combinatorial interpretation for the coefficients of the polynomials. Here, we prove the conjecture for the terms of highest degree.

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@article{arxiv.math/0610557,
  title  = {Stanley's character polynomials and coloured factorizations in the symmetric group},
  author = {Amarpreet Rattan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610557},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures, v2 minor revisions (typos etc)

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