Use the standard polytabloids for tableaux with rows and , as an ordered basis . Adjacent transpositions act byIn characteristic three their common fixed line is . On its quotient every transposition acts by minus one, giving the sign representation. Thus the displayed sequence has the trivial representation and sign as its composition factors, each once. It is nonsplit: the minus-one eigenspace of is , which is not preserved by .
The natural tabloid form restricts to Gram matrix . Its radical in characteristic three is exactly that fixed line. Therefore is the sign quotient, while the trivial factor is . This gives an explicit small failure of semisimplicity in modular symmetric-group representation theory.
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