Table of Contents

Background from representation theory.- The symmetric group.- Diagrams, tableaux and tabloids.- Specht modules.- Examples.- The character table of .- The garnir relations.- The standard basis of the specht module.- The branching theorem.- p-regular partitions.- The irreducible representations of .- Composition factors.- Semistandard homomorphisms.- Young’s rule.- Sequences.- The Littlewood-richardson rule.- A specht series for M?.- Hooks and skew-hooks.- The determinantal form.- The hook formula for dimensions.- The murnaghan-nakayama rule.- Binomial coefficients.- Some irreducible specht modules.- On the decomposition matrices of .- Young’s orthogonal form.- Representations of the general linear group.