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The Irreducible Representations of S n: Characters describes a special kind of function on the group, and shows that these functions are invariants of a representation of that group.
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Since we have shown that both versions of the group algebra are equivalent, we can use either version as needed!
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Howe, R.M. (2022). The Irreducible Representations of S n: Characters. In: An Invitation to Representation Theory. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98025-2_7
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