We study a q-analog Qr(n, q) of the partition algebra Pr(n). The algebra Qr(n, q) arises as the centralizer algebra of the finite general linear group GLn(Fq) acting on a vector space IR q coming from r-iterations of Harish-Chandra restriction and induction. For n ≥ 2r, we show that Qr(n, q) has the same semisimple matrix structure as Pr(n). We compute the dimension dn,r(q) = dim(IR r q ) to be...

A modular theory for permutation representations and their centralizer rings is presented, analogous in several respects to the classical work of Brauer on group algebras. Some principal ingredients of the theory are characters of indecomposable components of the permutation module over a p-adic ring, modular characters of the centralizer ring, and the action of normalizers of p-subgroups P on ...

Let (G;) be a permutation group of degree n. Let V (G;) be the set of all square matrices of order n which commute with all permutation matrices corresponding to permutations from (G;): V (G;) is a matrix algebra which is called the centralizer algebra of (G;): In this paper we introduce the combinatorial analogue of centralizer algebras, namely coherent (cellular) algebras and consider the pro...

We prove a global fixed point theorem for the centralizer of a homeomorphism of the two dimensional disk D that has attractor-repeller dynamics on the boundary with at least two attractors and two repellers. As one application, we show that there is a finite index subgroup of the centralizer of a pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism with infinitely many global fixed points. As another application we giv...