Irreducible Symmetric Group Characters of Rectangular Shape

Abstract

We give a new formula for the values of an irreducible character of the symmetric group S_n indexed by a partition of rectangular shape. Some observations and a conjecture are given concerning a generalization to arbitrary shapes.

11 pages, 2 figures, minor updates and corrections to previous version of 13 September 2001

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