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Plethysm and a character embedding problem of Miller
Brendon Rhoades1 
1 Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 360 (2022), pp. 1113-1116

We use a plethystic formula of Littlewood to answer a question of Miller on embeddings of symmetric group characters. We also reprove a result of Miller on character congruences.

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DOI: 10.5802/crmath.363

Brendon Rhoades 1

1 Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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Brendon Rhoades. Plethysm and a character embedding problem of Miller. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 360 (2022), pp. 1113-1116. doi: 10.5802/crmath.363

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