{ "id": "2006.12961", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-06-23T13:01:59.000Z", "updated": "2020-06-23T13:01:59.000Z", "title": "On self-extensions of irreducible modules over symmetric groups", "authors": [ "Haralampos Geranios", "Alexander Kleshchev", "Lucia Morotti" ], "categories": [ "math.RT" ], "abstract": "A conjecture going back to the eighties claims that there are no non-trivial self-extensions of irreducible modules over symmetric groups if the characteristic of the ground field is not equal to $2$. We obtain some partial positive results on this conjecture.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-06-23T13:01:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "symmetric groups", "irreducible modules", "eighties claims", "partial positive results", "non-trivial self-extensions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }