Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/iii/paper-77/7/a/solution

For , its coefficients are precisely the complete homogeneous symmetric functions . Thus the homomorphism sends every abstract generator to its ordinary value in the alphabet . Equivalently the general product expansion is the ordinary Cauchy identity for symmetric functions. Therefore
For every symmetric function , the same specialization gives .

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