Stanley's character polynomials and coloured factorizations in the symmetric group
Abstract
Description
Stanley introduces polynomials which help evaluate symmetric group characters and conjectures that the coefficients of the polynomials are positive. Stanley later gives a conjectured combinatorial interpretation for the coefficients of the polynomials. Here, we prove the conjecture for the terms of highest degree.
11 pages, 5 figures, v2 minor revisions (typos etc)
11 pages, 5 figures, v2 minor revisions (typos etc)