{ "id": "1105.3170", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-05-16T18:39:04.000Z", "updated": "2013-04-12T17:55:03.000Z", "title": "On (almost) extreme components in Kronecker products of characters of the symmetric groups", "authors": [ "Christine Bessenrodt", "Stephanie van Willigenburg" ], "comment": "38 pages, new theorems added, and paper now focused on maximal and almost maximal components in Kronecker products", "journal": "Journal of Algebra 410 (2014) 460-500", "doi": "10.1016/j.jalgebra.2014.01.035", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "Using a recursion formula due to Dvir, we obtain information on maximal and almost maximal components in Kronecker products of characters of the symmetric groups. This is applied to confirm a conjecture made by Bessenrodt and Kleshchev in 1999, which classifies all such Kronecker products with only three or four components.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-04-12T17:55:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05E05", "05E10", "20C30" ], "keywords": [ "kronecker products", "symmetric groups", "extreme components", "characters", "maximal components" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 38, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1105.3170B" } } }