The relationships between the values taken by ordinary characters of symmetric groups are exploited to prove two theorems in the modular representation theory of the symmetric group. 1. The decomposition matrices of symmetric groups in odd characteristic have distinct rows. In characteristic 2 the rows of a decomposition matrix labelled by the different partitions λ and μ are equal if and only ...

In this paper we study multivariate polynomial functions in complex variables and the corresponding associated symmetric tensor representations. The focus is on finding conditions under which such complex polynomials/tensors always take real values. We introduce the notion of symmetric conjugate forms and general conjugate forms, and present characteristic conditions for such complex polynomial...

We consider a generalized conjugate gradient method for solving sparse, symmetric, positive-definite systems of linear equations, principally those arising from the discretization of boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations. The method is based on splitting off from the original coefficient matrix a symmetric, positive-definiteonethat corresponds to a more easily solv...

In the Sylow theorems f we learn that if the order of a group 2Í is divisible hj pa (p a prime integer) and not by jo*+1, then 31 contains one and only one set of conjugate subgroups of order pa, and any subgroup of 21 whose order is a power of p is a subgroup of some member of this set of conjugate subgroups of 2Í. These conjugate subgroups may be called the Sylow subgroups of 21. It will be o...

In this paper, some zeros and non-zeros in the character tables of symmetric groups are displayed partition forms. particular, more self conjugate partitions beside odd permutations heavily investigated.

In this paper we prove that two Cartan subspaces of a semisimple symmetric pair (g, τ) are conjugate under G = Int(g) if and only if they are conjugate under (Gτ )0. Moreover we derive a double coset decomposition for G, which improves the results of Oshima and Matsuki.

We developed a fast numerical method for complex symmetric shifted linear systems, which is motivated by the quantum-mechanical (electronicstructure) theory in nanoscale materials. The method is named shifted Conjugate Orthogonal Conjugate Gradient (shifted COCG) method. The formulation is given and several numerical aspects are discussed.

Let M denote a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with all sectional curvatures ≥ 1. The purpose of this paper is to prove that when M has conjugate radius at least π/2, its injectivity radius and conjugate radius coincide. Metric characterizations of compact rank one symmetric spaces are given as applications.