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Author(s): Gordon James and Adalbert Kerber
Title: The representation theory of the symmetric group
Additional book information: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 16, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1981, xxviii + 510 pp., $44.50

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 357-363.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15121-2
PII: S 0273-0979(1983)15121-2

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