Block characters of the symmetric groups

Details Block characters of the symmetric groups Block characters of the symmetric groups

2011-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/1108.5044v2

Mathematics

Representation Theory

27 pages, v2: limit shape theorem added

Scientific paper

Block character of a finite symmetric group S(n) is a positive definite function which depends only on the number of cycles in permutation. We describe the cone of block characters by identifying its extreme rays, and find relations of the characters to descent representations and the coinvariant algebra of S(n). The decomposition of extreme block characters into the sum of characters of irreducible representations gives rise to certain limit shape theorems for random Young diagrams. We also study counterparts of the block characters for the infinite symmetric group S(\infty) along with their connection to the Thoma characters of the infinite linear group GL(\infty,q) over a Galois field.

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