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Lagrange's identity and the hook formula

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A simple combinatorial derivation of the hook formula for the dimensions of irreducible representations of the symmetric group is given

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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova, Akad. Nauk SSSR, Vol. 172, pp. 78–87, 1989.

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Kirillov, A.N. Lagrange's identity and the hook formula. J Math Sci 59, 1078–1084 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01480689

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