Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / iii / Paper 160 / 1 / a

Expand the Column antisymmetrizer of a Young tableau:If two entries in one column of $v$ lie in the same row of $w$, their transposition belongs to both $C(v)$ and the row stabilizer of $w$, so the terms cancel in pairs. The assumption $b_v\{w\}\ne 0$ therefore says that every row of $w$ meets every column of $v$ in at most one entry.

The first row of $w$ has ${\lambda }_1$ entries, while $v$ has exactly ${\lambda }_1$ nonempty columns. It must consequently contain exactly one entry from each column of $v$. Permuting within each column puts these entries in the first row positions of $v$. Delete the matched first rows and repeat the argument on the remaining Young diagram. The product of the resulting column permutations is an element $h\in C(v)$ for which the row sets of $hv$ are those of $w$. ThusThis is the nonzero column antisymmetrizer criterion.