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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 103 3 ii Solution by
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The implication is false. ChooseThe inequalities and the relation hold. At cell , the hook length is .
For the partition of an integer , the Hook-length formula giveswhich is divisible by . This also agrees with the degree of the standard representation of the symmetric group .
The obstruction is visible in the core of a partition: removing the horizontal rim hook of length nine leaves , which has no hook length nine and hence is the -core. Its degree is . The large hook ensures the required weight of a partition here, but the core degree is not coprime to .
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