Root of unity Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
An th root of unity is a complex number satisfying . The primitive root generates all th roots.
Schur algebra 2026-10-07
The Schur algebra is the commutant of place permutations on a tensor power. It is the linear span of the diagonal general linear group action, by Schur–Weyl duality. Modules over correspond to homogeneous degree- polynomial representations. Over the complex numbers it is a semisimple algebra: decompose the tensor power as a module for the semisimple group algebra , and take its endomorphism algebra.
Schur module 2026-10-07
A Schur module is the value of a Schur functor on a vector space. Over the complex numbers it is either zero or an irreducible polynomial representation of the general linear group. Its character is the Schur polynomial in the eigenvalues, and its highest weight is padded with zeros.
Signed Young permutation module Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-07
Over the complex numbers, the signed Young permutation module is
The isomorphism is the tensor identity for induced representations. The partition index is unchanged by this twist; conjugation instead changes the labels of its irreducible constituents. For the conjugate partition , the character inner product of and is one: Mackey restriction formula reduces it to the unique zero-one matrix with row margins and column margins .
For finite with and ,
In particular, addition and multiplication cannot both expand a nontrivial finite set of complex numbers only slightly.
For , over the complex numbers,
By Young's rule, the multiplicity is the Kostka number for content . A semistandard Young tableau on just the entries has at most two rows. For shape , every lower entry is and every entry above it is ; the remaining top row is uniquely fixed by the content. Such a filling exists precisely for . Thus each displayed Specht module occurs once. A zero second part is omitted.