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Core partitions and block coverings

Author(s): Jørn B. Olsson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2943-2951.
MSC (2000): Primary 20C30, 05A17
Posted: April 8, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2506452
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Abstract: We prove some new results on core partitions and apply them to describe explicitly all block coverings in symmetric groups.


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Additional Information:

Jørn B. Olsson
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: olsson@math.ku.dk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09909-2
PII: S 0002-9939(09)09909-2
Received by editor(s): January 6, 2009
Posted: April 8, 2009
Communicated by: Ken Ono
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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