Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 160 1 a Solution 2026-09-28
Expand the Column antisymmetrizer of a Young tableau:If two entries in one column of lie in the same row of , their transposition belongs to both and the row stabilizer of , so the terms cancel in pairs. The assumption therefore says that every row of meets every column of in at most one entry.
The first row of has entries, while has exactly nonempty columns. It must consequently contain exactly one entry from each column of . Permuting within each column puts these entries in the first row positions of . Delete the matched first rows and repeat the argument on the remaining Young diagram. The product of the resulting column permutations is an element for which the row sets of are those of . ThusThis is the nonzero column antisymmetrizer criterion.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 160 1 b i Solution 2026-09-28
Write the transposition as with and . If is not one of the two entries moved by , then . The entries and lie in one column of , while and lie in one row. A Young diagram has only one cell at the intersection of a specified row and column, so and then .
Consequently both and fix every entry outside the support of . On the two remaining entries each is either the identity or their transposition. They cannot both transpose them, since then , and they cannot both be the identity. Exactly one of is therefore , proving that lies in exactly one of and .
Removable node of a Young diagram 2026-09-28