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Irreducible character orthogonality gives ⟨χ,χ⟩=1. Under the proposed vanishing condition, only the identity contributes, so
1=∣S6​∣χ(1)2​=720χ(1)2​.
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But χ(1) is an integer dimension and 720 is not a square. Thus no such partition exists.

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