Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-160/2/b/ii/solution

For the staircase ,
whenever is a cell, so every hook length is odd. A removable rim hook of length corresponds to a hook of length in the original diagram. If a cycle type contains an even part , apply the Murnaghan–Nakayama rule to that part first. There are no terms in the sum, and therefore .

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