Tuesday, 20 March 2007

rt.representation theory - some confusion about the explicit construction of irreducible representations of Sn

In this book chapter, the irreducible representations of the symmetric group Sn is given in terms of polytabloids of a Ferrer's diagram lambda, defined as
et=sumpiinCttextsgn(pi)epilbracetrbrace.
Here t is a tableau of lambda, Ct is the column stablizing subgroup for t in Sn. textsgn is the signature of the permutation pi. Finally {t} is the equivalence class of tableau (called tabloid) represented by t, where two tableaux are considered equivalent if they have the same row entries.



My question is, how is the definition of polytabloids above independent of the choice of t in its equivalence class? For instance, if t is the tableau {1,2},{3,4}, then it's equivalent to s={2,1},{3,4}, but etneqes. So maybe it's not independent of representative. But then there seems to be too many polytabloids. I would also appreciate if someone could help me establish the connection with Fulton and Harris's book on representation theory problem 4.47. I am not sure what is meant by a standard tableau there. Also in the second construction of the irreps of Sn in the same problem, I am not sure how the action of Sn on the polynomials is defined.

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