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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 160 1 a Solution by
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The symmetric group acts transitively on the Young tableaux of a fixed shape. Moreover, for every permutation , so every polytabloid is a translate of any fixed one. Hence the Specht module is a cyclic module generated by .
It remains to see that . In its expansion, the coefficient of the tabloid is one: if and , then . Thus the generator, and therefore the module, is nonzero.
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