Character theory of infinite wreath products

Character theory of infinite wreath products

The representation theory of infinite wreath product groups is developed by means of the relationship between their group algebras and conjugacy classes with those of the infinite symmetric group. Further, since these groups are inductive limits of finite groups, their finite characters can be classified as limits of normalized irreducible characters of prelimit finite groups. This identificati...

A SOLOMON DESCENT THEORY FOR THE WREATH PRODUCTS G Sn

We propose an analogue of Solomon’s descent theory for the case of a wreath product G Sn, where G is a finite abelian group. Our construction mixes a number of ingredients: Mantaci-Reutenauer algebras, Specht’s theory for the representations of wreath products, Okada’s extension to wreath products of the Robinson-Schensted correspondence, and Poirier’s quasisymmetric functions. We insist on the...

The Wreath Products

Rooted Wreath Products

We introduce “rooted valuation products” and use them to construct universal Abelian lattice-ordered groups (with prescribed set of components) [CHH] from the more classical theory of [Ha]. The Wreath product construction of [H] and [HMc] generalised the Abelian (lattice-ordered) group ideas to a permutation group setting to respectively give universals for transitive (`-) permutation groups wi...

Eigenvalues of Random Wreath Products

Steven N. Evans Department of Statistics #3860, University of California at Berkeley 367 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3860, U.S.A [email protected] Abstract Consider a uniformly chosen element Xn of the n-fold wreath product Γn = G o G o · · · o G, where G is a finite permutation group acting transitively on some set of size s. The eigenvalues of Xn in the natural sn-dimensional permuta...