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Decomposition of Young Permutation Modules

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Decomposition of Young Permutation Modules demonstrates “Young’s Rule,” which describes how permutation modules decompose into irreducible subrepresentations whose multiplicities are described by the Kotska numbers.

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    There is also a “Young’s Rule” in medicine.

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Howe, R.M. (2022). Decomposition of Young Permutation Modules. In: An Invitation to Representation Theory. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98025-2_12

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