The Modern Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups

The goal of this thesis is to first give an overview of the modern approach, using the paper of A. Vershik and A. Okounkov, to inductively parametrizing all irreducible representations of the symmetric groups. This theory is then used to answer questions concerning to central projections in the grou...

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Main Author: Cioppa, Timothy
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20490