Past exam of the Lie algebras and representation theory of symmetric groups course of the University of Oxford / 2007 / B / 7 / a

The symmetric group acts on tabloids by permuting their entries; extending linearly gives the permutation module $M^{\mu }$. Its dimension isA tableau of type $\mu$ contains exactly ${\mu }_i$ copies of the label $i$. Fix a numbering of the $\lambda$-diagram's cells by $1,\dots ,n$. For a filling $T$, let the $i$th row set of an associated $\mu$-tabloid be the set of cell numbers whose labels in $T$ equal $i$. This is a bijection from type-$\mu$ fillings to $\mu$-tabloids.

Define $\sigma T$ by moving labels along the numbered positions: its label at cell $j$ is the old label at cell ${\sigma }^{-1}j$. The associated row set is then the image under $\sigma$ of the old row set. Thus the bijection is equivariant, and its linear extension makes $F[{\mathcal{T}}_{\lambda ,\mu }]$ and $M^{\mu }$ isomorphic representations. Extend from group elements to the group algebra by linearity.