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An explicit formula for the characters of the symmetric group

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We give an explicit expression of the normalized characters of the symmetric group in terms of the “contents” of the partition labelling the representation.

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Lassalle, M. An explicit formula for the characters of the symmetric group. Math. Ann. 340, 383–405 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-007-0156-5

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