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Young Tableaux

We want to come up with some nice sets for our symmetric group to act on. Our first step in this direction is to define a “Young tableau”.

If \lambda\vdash n is a partition of n, we define a Young tableau of shape \lambda to be an array of numbers. We start with the Ferrers diagram of the partition \lambda, and we replace the dots with the numbers 1 to n in any order. Clearly, there are n! Young tableaux of shape \lambda if \lambda\vdash n.

For example, if \lambda=(2,1), the Ferrers diagram is

\displaystyle\begin{array}{cc}\bullet&\bullet\\\bullet&\end{array}

We see that (2,1)\vdash3, and so there are 3!=6 Young tableaux of shape (2,1). They are

\displaystyle\begin{aligned}\begin{array}{cc}1&2\\3&\end{array}&,&\begin{array}{cc}1&3\\2&\end{array}&,&\begin{array}{cc}2&1\\3&\end{array}\\\begin{array}{cc}2&3\\1&\end{array}&,&\begin{array}{cc}3&1\\2&\end{array}&,&\begin{array}{cc}3&2\\1&\end{array}\end{aligned}

We write t_{i,j} for the entry in the (i,j) place. For example, the last tableau above has t_{1,1}=3, t_{1,2}=2, and t_{2,1}=1.

We also call a Young tableau t of shape \lambda a “\lambda-tableau”, and we write \mathrm{sh}(t)=\lambda. We can write a generic \lambda-tableau as t^\lambda.

December 9, 2010 - Posted by | Algebra, Group theory, Representation Theory, Representations of Symmetric Groups

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