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We consider in this chapter, the methods developed by Young and independently by Frobenius for the resolution into minimal ideals yielding irreducible representations of the Symmetric group ring Ω ≡ (S n , K).
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Rao, K.N.S. (2006). Representations of the Symmetric Group. In: Linear Algebra and Group Theory for Physicists. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-32-3_7
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