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Erwin Schroedinger Institute Preprint No. 333, 1996. Available from http://www.esi.ac.at/ ESI-Preprints.html

Supported by the ISF and by RFFI grant 95-01-00814. The paper was completed during the author's stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The author is grateful to IAS for its hospitality and to the NSF for financial support (grant DMS 9304580).

Partially supported by the INTAS grant 94-3420 and by RFFI grant 96-01-00676. The paper was completed during the author's stay at the Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics.

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Okounkov, A., Vershik, A. A new approach to representation theory of symmetric groups. Selecta Mathematica, New Series 2, 581 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02433451

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