Here's a question I've been thinking about, it's a curiosity that I don't know how to answer. There could be a simple counterexample, or it could be true and I don't know how difficult it would be to prove.
If we fix m, is it always possible to find a sufficiently large n satisfying the conditions of the following question: [Note: My original question was to determine whether it is true for arbitrary m,n which was answered below negatively; I have edited it to make the question more interesting].
Define phi:SmrightarrowSm+n is a canonical embedding, and phi∗:F[Sm]rightarrowF[Sm+n] and similarly embeddings theta:SnrightarrowSm+n, and the induced map, such that phi(Sm)timestheta(Sn) is a direct product.
Given an element xinphi∗(F[Sm]),xneq0, is it necessary that there exist an element x′inF[Sm+n] so that the product xx′intheta∗(F[Sn]),xx′neq0. It seemed true in the cases that I have tried, but they are quite small so I'm not certain if this is true.
Making the assumption textcharF=0 would make it easier I'm sure, but even in this case I can't prove it.
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