Solution

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The first Young–Jucys–Murphy element is the empty sum . Applying it to the nonzero simultaneous eigenvector defining a point of the joint spectrum gives . Hence
For the remaining spectral arguments use the following local facts, without assuming the restriction branching rule for a symmetric group: consecutive eigenvalues are distinct; a difference makes act on the corresponding line as ; every other adjacent interchange gives another point of the joint spectrum in the same irreducible representation. These are the local spectral rules for Young–Jucys–Murphy elements. They follow from and the one- or two-dimensional analysis of the two neighboring eigenspaces. They are the appropriate local results used below.

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