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In mathematics, there are two natural interpretations of the place-permutation action of symmetric groups, in which the group elements act on positions or ''places''. Each may be regarded as either a left or a right action, depending on the order in which one chooses to compose permutations. There are just two interpretations of the meaning of "acting by a permutation " but these lead to four variations, depending whether maps are written on the left or right of their arguments. The presence of so many variations often leads to confusion. When regarding the group algebra of a symmetric group as a ''diagram algebra''〔For a readable overview of various diagram algebras generalizing group algebras of symmetric groups, see Halverson and Ram 2005.〕 it is natural to write maps on the right so as to compute compositions of diagrams from left to right. == Maps written on the left == First we assume that maps are written on the left of their arguments, so that compositions take place from right to left. Let be the symmetric group〔See James 1978 for the representation theory of symmetric groups. Weyl 1939, Chapter IV treats the important topic now known as Schur–Weyl duality, which is an important application of the place-permutation action.〕 on letters, with compositions computed from right to left. Imagine a situation in which elements of act〔Hungerford 1974, Chapter II, Section 4〕 on the “places” (i.e., positions) of something. The places could be vertices of a regular polygon of sides, the tensor positions of a simple tensor, or even the inputs of a polynomial of variables. So we have places, numbered in order from 1 to , occupied by objects that we can number . In short, we can regard our items as a ''word'' of length in which the position of each element is significant. Now what does it mean to act by “place-permutation” on ? There are two possible answers: # an element can move the item in the th place to the th place, or # it can do the opposite, moving an item from the th place to the th place. Each of these interpretations of the meaning of an “action” by (on the places) is equally natural, and both are widely used by mathematicians. Thus, when encountering an instance of a "place-permutation" action one must take care to determine from the context which interpretation is intended, if the author does not give specific formulas. Consider the first interpretation. The following descriptions are all equivalent ways to describe the rule for the first interpretation of the action: * For each , move the item in the th place to the th place. * For each , move the item in the th place to the th place. * For each , replace the item in the th position by the one that was in the th place. This action may be written as the rule . Now if we act on this by another permutation then we need to first relabel the items by writing . Then takes this to This proves that the action is a left action: . Now we consider the second interpretation of the action of , which is the opposite of the first. The following descriptions of the second interpretation are all equivalent: * For each , move the item in the th place to the th place. * For each , move the item in the th place to the th place. * For each , replace the item in the th position by the one that was in the th place. This action may be written as the rule . In order to act on this by another permutation , again we first relabel the items by writing . Then the action of takes this to This proves that our second interpretation of the action is a right action: . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Place-permutation action」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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