Asymptotic theory of characters of the symmetric group
Asymptotic theory of characters of the symmetric group
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对称群特征的渐近理论
DOI:
10.1007/bf01106153
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发表时间:
1981
影响因子:
0.4
通讯作者:
S. Kerov
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文献类型:
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作者:
A. Vershik;S. Kerov
In this paper there are found the finite and semifinite characters of the infinite symmetric group, ie, the group 6co of finitary permutations of a countable set. The finite characters of 6~ were first described in the important paper of Thoma [12]. Our method is based on other ideas, viz., on passage to the limit from the finite symmetric groups 6~. With the help of this method we also get information about the behavior of the characters of~ for large n. The content of the present paper is closely connected with other papers of the authors devoted to the group 6~ o: in [16] we give a realization of factor-representations of type II1, in the survey [17] we calculate the K0-funetor for~, using the list of characters and general properties of K0; in [15] there is given the asymptotic behavior of the Piancherel measure for~.In a wider setting, the group 6co is a nontrivial experimental model in the theory of locally finite groups, and its group algebra, in the theory of locally semisimple algebras has been intensively studied recently [18, 19]. The theory of representations of these objects is only beginning to be developed. The problems here are different than in the classical theory already because as a rule the class of all representations is immense (the groups and algebras are" wild"). Moreover, even the set of normalized characters can be immense. All the more remarkable that for the limits of the classical series 6~, U (oo), GL (oo, Fq) the characters admit explicit description.