# ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS

Composition factors of 2-parts spin representations of symmetric groups
Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 3 (2020) no. 6, pp. 1283-1291.

Given an odd prime $p$, we identify possible composition factors of the reduction modulo $p$ of spin irreducible representations of the covering groups of symmetric groups indexed by partitions with 2 parts and find some decomposition numbers.

Revised: 2020-06-17
Accepted: 2020-06-17
Published online: 2020-12-04
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5802/alco.137
Classification: 20C30,  20C25,  20C20
Keywords: Symmetric groups, spin representations, decomposition numbers.
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Morotti, Lucia. Composition factors of 2-parts spin representations of symmetric groups. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 3 (2020) no. 6, pp. 1283-1291. doi : 10.5802/alco.137. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/item/ALCO_2020__3_6_1283_0/

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