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There is an index error in the displayed identity of the original PDF. With its definition of the signed Young permutation module, the tensor identity for induced representations givesBoth superscripts must be $\alpha$. In particular ${\tilde{M}}^{{\lambda }^{\prime }}\cong \mathrm{sgn}\otimes M^{{\lambda }^{\prime }}$, rather than the printed sign twist of $M^{\lambda }$. For $\lambda =(n)$, $n\ge 2$, the printed left side has dimension $n!$, while the printed right side has dimension one. Thus that identity cannot hold as written.

The requested character inner product between $M^{\lambda }$ and ${\tilde{M}}^{{\lambda }^{\prime }}$ nevertheless has a well-defined answer. Let $R$ be the row Young subgroup of a tableau of shape $\lambda$, and let $C$ be its column subgroup, conjugate to $S_{{\lambda }^{\prime }}$. By Frobenius reciprocity and the Mackey restriction formula, the inner product is a sum over $R\backslash S_n/C$ ofThese double cosets are encoded by nonnegative integer matrices $A=(a_{ij})$ with row sums ${\lambda }_i$ and column sums ${\lambda }_j^{\prime }$, recording intersection sizes of row and column blocks. The intersection subgroup is a product of $S_{a_{ij}}$. Its sign representation is trivial exactly when every $a_{ij}\le 1$. Each zero-one matrix contributes one, and every other matrix contributes zero.

There is exactly one zero-one matrix with these margins. Its first row has length ${\lambda }_1$, equal to the number of nonzero column sums, so that row must consist entirely of ones. Delete it, subtract one from every column margin and discard zero columns. The remaining margins are those of $({\lambda }_2,{\lambda }_3,\dots )$ and its conjugate partition; induction forces the rest. The unique matrix is $a_{ij}=1$ precisely for $j\le {\lambda }_i$. ThereforeThis calculation uses the actual two modules requested in the PDF and does not depend on its erroneous displayed isomorphism.

The Specht module construction gives a nonzero inclusion $V^{\lambda }\hookrightarrow M^{\lambda }$ over the complex numbers: a polytabloid has coefficient one at its original tabloid, because the row and column stabilizers have trivial intersection, and its span is the corresponding irreducible representation. This establishes $a=M(\lambda ,\lambda )\ge 1$ without using the multiplicity-one conclusion. Similarly $a^{\prime }=M({\lambda }^{\prime },{\lambda }^{\prime })\ge 1$.

By the corrected tensor identity for induced representations and the conjugate-partition sign twist, the multiplicity of $V^{\lambda }$ in ${\tilde{M}}^{{\lambda }^{\prime }}$ is $a^{\prime }$. The character inner product already computed is the sum of products of multiplicities of common irreducible representations. ThusBoth are positive integers, so $a=a^{\prime }=1$. In particularThis deduction avoids assuming the full Young's rule, which would already contain the answer. Alternatively, the permitted one-dimensional R-module homomorphism space gives the same character inner product immediately.

Over the complex numbers, the signed Young permutation module isThe 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 ${\lambda }^{\prime }$, the character inner product of $M^{\lambda }$ and ${\tilde{M}}^{{\lambda }^{\prime }}$ is one: Mackey restriction formula reduces it to the unique zero-one matrix with row margins $\lambda$ and column margins ${\lambda }^{\prime }$.