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Universal characters, a natural generalisation of the classical Schur functions, have emerged as a powerful algebraic tool in the study of integrable systems. They are defined as polynomials attached ...

The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 18, No. 1 (WINTER 1988), pp. 137-146 (10 pages) Let c : Sn → ℂ be a complex valued function on the symmetric group. For A = (aij), an n-by-n matrix, ...