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In previous work Regev used part of the representation theory of Lie superalgebras to compute the values of a character of the symmetric group whose decomposition into irreducible constituents is described by semistandard (k, ℓ)-tableaux. In this short note we give a new proof of Regev’s result using skew characters.
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The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support of an INdAM Marie-Curie Fellowship and grants CPDA125818/12 and 60A01-4222/15 of the University of Padova.
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Taylor, J. A note on skew characters of symmetric groups. Isr. J. Math. 221, 435–443 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11856-017-1549-0
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