A Short Proof of the Rank Formula for Inclusion Matrices using the Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group

Abstract

We present a new proof of the well known formula for the rank of the inclusion matrix by constructing a kSn-module spanned by the columns of this matrix and calculating its dimension.

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