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Past exam of the Lie algebras and representation theory of symmetric groups course of the University of Oxford 2007 B 7 d Solution by
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For shape and type both , column strictness makes every entry in row at least . All entries equal to one must therefore be in the first row, which has exactly that length; it is filled with ones. Remove that row and repeat after subtracting one from the remaining labels. Induction gives the unique filling whose th row consists of 's. Thus , and Young's rule proves that occurs exactly once.
More generally, if a semistandard filling of shape and type exists, its entries at most must lie in the first rows. Counting them givesThese are the inequalities defining the dominance order on partitions. Hence implies , and the asserted restriction on summands follows from Young's rule.
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