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Representation Stability


Representation stability describes a sequence of representations whose irreducible multiplicities eventually stop changing after the irreducible labels are adjusted with the size of the group. For a sequence of S_n-modules

 V_n= direct sum _lambda(S^(lambda[n]))^( direct sum c_(lambda,n)),

multiplicity stability means that for every partition lambda, the coefficient c_(lambda,n) is independent of n for all sufficiently large n. Uniform multiplicity stability requires a single stable range that works for all lambda.

With compatible S_n-equivariant maps V_n->V_(n+1), uniform representation stability additionally requires these maps to become injective and their S_(n+1)-orbits to span V_(n+1) (Church et al. 2015). Borisov (2026) proves that stabilization of Schur coefficients in the corresponding Frobenius images is equivalent, subject to finite weight, to stabilization of coefficients in the monomial basis of symmetric functions, and gives bounds for stable ranges.


See also

Group Representation, Irreducible Representation, Symmetric Function, Symmetric Group

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References

Borisov, N. "Monomial Stability of Frobenius Images." Electron. J. Combin. 33, P3.76, 2026. https://doi.org/10.37236/14309.Church, T.; Ellenberg, J. S.; and Farb, B. "FI-Modules and Stability for Representations of Symmetric Groups." Duke Math. J. 164, 1833-1910, 2015.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Representation Stability." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RepresentationStability.html

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