{ "id": "2102.11966", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-02-23T22:16:52.000Z", "updated": "2021-02-23T22:16:52.000Z", "title": "Magic squares and the symmetric group", "authors": [ "Ofir Gorodetsky" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "Diaconis and Gamburd computed moments of secular coefficients in the CUE ensemble. We use the characteristic map to give a new combinatorial proof of their result. We also extend their computation to moments of traces of symmetric powers, where the same result holds but in a wider range.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-02-23T22:16:52.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "symmetric group", "magic squares", "secular coefficients", "wider range", "combinatorial proof" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }