Algebraic and Geometric Topology 2 (2002), paper no. 27, pages 563-590.

Linking first occurrence polynomials over F_p by Steenrod operations

Pham Anh Minh, Grant Walker


Abstract. This paper provides analogues of the results of [G.Walker and R.M.W. Wood, Linking first occurrence polynomials over F_2 by Steenrod operations, J. Algebra 246 (2001), 739--760] for odd primes p. It is proved that for certain irreducible representations L(\lambda ) of the full matrix semigroup M_n(F_p), the first occurrence of L(\lambda ) as a composition factor in the polynomial algebra P=F_p[x_1,...,x_n] is linked by a Steenrod operation to the first occurrence of L(\lambda ) as a submodule in P. This operation is given explicitly as the image of an admissible monomial in the Steenrod algebra A_p under the canonical anti-automorphism \chi . The first occurrences of both kinds are also linked to higher degree occurrences of L(\lambda ) by elements of the Milnor basis of A_p.

Keywords. Steenrod algebra, anti-automorphism, p-truncated polynomial algebra T, T-regular partition/representation

AMS subject classification. Primary: 55S10. Secondary: 20C20.

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2002.2.563

E-print: arXiv:math.AT/0207213

Submitted: 24 January 2002. Accepted: 10 July 2002. Published: 20 July 2002.

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Pham Anh Minh, Grant Walker
Department of Mathematics, College of Sciences
University of Hue, Dai hoc Khoa hoc, Hue, Vietnam
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Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.
Email: paminh@dng.vnn.vn, grant@ma.man.ac.uk

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