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A Generalization of the Young Diagram

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M. D. Burrow
M. D. Burrow*
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McGill University
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The method of A. Young for finding the set of primitive idempotents of the group algebra of the symmetric group is classical; it was first given by Frobenius (4) using results of Young (10 and 11). A concise account can be found in (9) and a very detailed treatment in (6).

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 6 , 1954 , pp. 498 - 508
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1954

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