grandes-ecoles 2020 Q25

grandes-ecoles · France · centrale-maths1__mp Matrices Diagonalizability and Similarity
Show that if $\sigma \in \mathfrak{S}_n$, then $\chi_\sigma(X) = \prod_{\ell=1}^{n} \left(X^\ell - 1\right)^{c_\ell(\sigma)}$.
One may justify that $P_\sigma$ is similar to a block diagonal matrix whose blocks are matrices of the form $\Gamma_\ell$ ($\ell \geq 1$), where $\Gamma_\ell$ is defined above if $\ell \geq 2$ and where $\Gamma_\ell = (1)$ if $\ell = 1$.
Show that if $\sigma \in \mathfrak{S}_n$, then $\chi_\sigma(X) = \prod_{\ell=1}^{n} \left(X^\ell - 1\right)^{c_\ell(\sigma)}$.

One may justify that $P_\sigma$ is similar to a block diagonal matrix whose blocks are matrices of the form $\Gamma_\ell$ ($\ell \geq 1$), where $\Gamma_\ell$ is defined above if $\ell \geq 2$ and where $\Gamma_\ell = (1)$ if $\ell = 1$.