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Representation-theoretic interpretation of a formula of D. E. Littlewood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Tadeusz Józefiak  and
Jerzy Weyman
Tadeusz Józefiak
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Chopina 12, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Jerzy Weyman
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Chopina 12, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
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This note is a continuation of our attempts (see [3]) to give a satisfactory representation-theoretic justification of the following formula of D. E. Littlewood:

where sI is the Schur symmetric function corresponding to a partition I, |I| is the weight of I, r(I) is the rank of I, and the summation ranges over all self-conjugate partitions (i.e. partitions I such that I = I where I is the partition conjugate to I).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 103 , Issue 2 , March 1988 , pp. 193 - 196
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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