We give closed product formulas for the irreducible characters of symmetric groups related to rectangular `almost square' Young diagrams $p \times(p+\delta)$ a fixed value an integer $\delta$ and arbitrary $p$.

‎in [u‎. ‎dempwolff‎, ‎on extensions of elementary abelian groups of order $2^{5}$ by $gl(5,2)$‎, ‎textit{rend‎. ‎sem‎. ‎mat‎. ‎univ‎. ‎padova}‎, ‎textbf{48} (1972)‎, ‎359‎ - ‎364.] dempwolff proved the existence of a group of the‎ ‎form $2^{5}{^{cdot}}gl(5,2)$ (a non split extension of the‎ ‎elementary abelian group $2^{5}$ by the general linear group‎ ‎$gl(5,2)$)‎. ‎this group is the second l...

where χ(1) denotes the dimension of the character χ and (n)k = n(n − 1) · · · (n − k + 1). Thus [8, (7.6)(ii)][12, p. 349] χ(1) is the number f of standard Young tableaux of shape λ. Identify λ with its diagram {(i, j) : 1 ≤ j ≤ λi}, and regard the points (i, j) ∈ λ as squares (forming the Young diagram of λ). We write diagrams in “English notation,” with the first coordinate increasing from to...

Following the work of B. Külshammer, J. B. Olsson and G. R. Robinson on generalized blocks of the symmetric groups, we give a definition for the l-defect of characters of the symmetric group Sn, where l > 1 is an arbitrary integer. We prove that the l-defect is given by an analogue of the hook-length formula, and use it to prove, when n < l, an l-version of the McKay Conjecture in Sn.

We consider sums of the form π∈Sn χ λ/µ (π) q inv(π) where χ λ/µ is a skew character of the symmetric group and inv(π) is the number of inversions of π. Our main result gives a lower bound on the number of factors of 1 + q and 1 − q which divide the above sum, and is shown to be sharp when λ/µ is a hook partition shape. Résumé Nous considérons des sommes de la forme

Using handwritten characters we address two questions (i) what is the group identification performance of different alphabets (upper and lower case) and (ii) what are the best characters for the verification task (same writer/different writer discrimination) knowing demographic information about the writer such as age,sex or country of birth. The Bhattacharya distance is used to rank different ...

Normalized irreducible characters of the symmetric group S(n) can be understood as zonal spherical functions of the Gelfand pair (S(n)×S(n),diag S(n)). They form an orthogonal basis in the space of the functions on the group S(n) invariant with respect to conjugations by S(n). In this paper we consider a different Gelfand pair connected with the symmetric group, that is an “unbalanced” Gelfand ...