Nonvanishing random entries in the character table of the symmetric group

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Let λ,μ⊢n\lambda,\mu\vdash n be independently chosen random partitions of nn, and let χλ[μ]\chi^\lambda[\mu] denote the value of the irreducible character indexed by λ\lambda on the conjugacy class indexed by μ\mu. Random-character-table conjecture. Then

χλ[μ]≠0\chi^\lambda[\mu]\ne0

with high probability as n→∞n\to\infty. This is posed as a natural question about random entries of the character table of SnS_n; the source gives no resolution and leaves it open.

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Igor Pak, Greta Panova and Ernesto Vallejo, “Kronecker products, characters, partitions, and the tensor square conjectures”, arXiv:1304.0738 (2013).

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