The Benson - Symonds Invariant for Permutation Modules

In a recent paper, Dave Benson and Peter Symonds defined a new invariant γ_G(M) for a finite dimensional module M of a finite group G which attempts to quantify how close a module is to being projective. In this paper, we determine this invariant for permutation modules of the symmetric group corresponding to two-part partitions using tools from representation theory and combinatorics.