Kronecker Comultiplication of Stable Characters and Restriction From $S_{mn}$ to $S_m \times S_n$

Abstract

A family of symmetric functions $\tilde{s}_\lambda$ was introduced in [OZ], and independently in [AS]. The $\tilde{s}_\lambda$ encode many stability properties of representations of symmetric groups (e.g. when multiplied, the structure constants are reduced Kronecker coefficients). We show that the structure constants for the Kronecker comultiplication $\Delta^*$ are multiplicities for the restriction of irreducible representations from $S_{mn}$ to $S_m \times S_n$ (provided $m$ and $n$ are sufficiently large), and use the structure of $\tilde{s}_\lambda$ to demonstrate two-row stability properties of these restriction multiplicities.