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Operations in Grothendieck Rings and the Symmetric Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John Burroughs
John Burroughs*
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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In [1] Atiyah described how to use the complex representations of the symmetric group, Sn, to define and investigate operations in complex topological K-theory. In this paper operations for more general Grothendieck groups are described in terms of the integral representations of Sn using the representations directly without passing to the dual as Atiyah did. The principal tool, which is proved in the first section, is the theorem that the direct sum of the Grothendieck groups of finite integral representations of Sn form a bialgebra isomorphic to a polynomial ring with a sequence of divided powers. A consequence of this theorem is that the only operations that can be constructed from the symmetric groups will be polynomials in the symmetric powers.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 543 - 550
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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