The ring of multisymmetric functions
Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Volume 55 (2005) no. 3, pp. 717-731.

We give a presentation (in terms of generators and relations) of the ring of multisymmetric functions that holds for any commutative ring R, thereby answering a classical question coming from works of F. Junker [J1, J2, J3] in the late nineteen century and then implicitly in H. Weyl book “The classical groups” [W].

Si R est un anneau commutatif, on présente par générateurs et relations, l’algèbre des fonctions multisymétriques à coefficients dans R, de façon à répondre à une question classique liée aux travaux de F. Junker [J1, J2, J3] et implicitement à ceux de H. Weyl [W].

DOI: 10.5802/aif.2111
Classification: 05E05, 13A50, 20C30
Keywords: invariants theory, symmetric functions, representations of symmetric groups
Mot clés : théorie des invariants, polynômes symétriques, représentations du groupe symétrique
Vaccarino, Francesco 1

1 Politecnico di Torino, dipartimento di Matematica, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (Italy)
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Vaccarino, Francesco. The ring of multisymmetric functions. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Volume 55 (2005) no. 3, pp. 717-731. doi : 10.5802/aif.2111. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/aif.2111/

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