scholarly journals GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATIONS OF REPRESENTATIONS OF WREATH PRODUCTS

Author(s):  
PIOTR ŚNIADY

We study the asymptotics of the reducible representations of the wreath products G≀Sq = Gq ⋊ Sq for large q, where G is a fixed finite group and Sq is the symmetric group in q elements; in particular for G = ℤ/2ℤ we recover the hyperoctahedral groups. We decompose such a reducible representation of G≀Sq as a sum of irreducible components (or, equivalently, as a collection of tuples of Young diagrams) and we ask what is the character of a randomly chosen component (or, what are the shapes of Young diagrams in a randomly chosen tuple). Our main result is that for a large class of representations, the fluctuations of characters (and fluctuations of the shape of the Young diagrams) are asymptotically Gaussian. The considered class consists of the representations for which the characters asymptotically almost factorize and it includes, among others, the left regular representation therefore we prove the analogue of Kerov's central limit theorem for wreath products.

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (08) ◽  
pp. 1550064
Author(s):  
Bachir Bekka

Let Γ be a discrete group and 𝒩 a finite factor, and assume that both have Kazhdan's Property (T). For p ∈ [1, +∞), p ≠ 2, let π : Γ →O(Lp(𝒩)) be a homomorphism to the group O(Lp(𝒩)) of linear bijective isometries of the Lp-space of 𝒩. There are two actions πl and πr of a finite index subgroup Γ+ of Γ by automorphisms of 𝒩 associated to π and given by πl(g)x = (π(g) 1)*π(g)(x) and πr(g)x = π(g)(x)(π(g) 1)* for g ∈ Γ+ and x ∈ 𝒩. Assume that πl and πr are ergodic. We prove that π is locally rigid, that is, the orbit of π under O(Lp(𝒩)) is open in Hom (Γ, O(Lp(𝒩))). As a corollary, we obtain that, if moreover Γ is an ICC group, then the embedding g ↦ Ad (λ(g)) is locally rigid in O(Lp(𝒩(Γ))), where 𝒩(Γ) is the von Neumann algebra generated by the left regular representation λ of Γ.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 1277-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
BACHIR BEKKA ◽  
JEAN-ROMAIN HEU

AbstractForn≥1, letHbe the (2n+1)-dimensional real Heisenberg group, and let Λ be a lattice inH. Let Γ be the group of automorphisms of the corresponding nilmanifold Λ∖HandUthe associated unitary representation of Γ onL2(Λ∖H) . Denote byTthe maximal torus factor associated to Λ∖H. Using Weil’s representation (also known as the metaplectic representation), we show that a dense set of matrix coefficients of the restriction ofUto the orthogonal complement ofL2(T) inL2(Λ∖H) belong toℓ4n+2+ε(Γ) for every ε>0 . We give the following application to random walks on Λ∖Hdefined by a probability measureμon Aut (Λ∖H) . Denoting by Γ(μ) the subgroup of Aut (Λ∖H) generated by the support ofμand byU0andV0the restrictions ofUto, respectively, the subspaces ofL2(Λ∖H) andL2(T) with zero mean, we prove the following inequality:whereλis the left regular representation of Γ(μ) onℓ2(Γ(μ)) . In particular, the action of Γ(μ) on Λ∖Hhas a spectral gap if and only if the corresponding action of Γ(μ) onThas a spectral gap.


Author(s):  
Leonid V Bogachev ◽  
Zhonggen Su

We obtain the central limit theorem for fluctuations of Young diagrams around their limit shape in the bulk of the ‘spectrum’ of partitions λ ⊢ n ∈ (under the Plancherel measure), thus settling a long-standing problem posed by Logan & Shepp. Namely, under normalization growing like , the corresponding random process in the bulk is shown to converge, in the sense of finite-dimensional distributions, to a Gaussian process with independent values, while local correlations in the vicinity of each point, measured on various power scales, possess certain self-similarity. The proofs are based on the Poissonization techniques and use Costin–Lebowitz–Soshnikov's central limit theorem for determinantal random point processes. Our results admit a striking reformulation after the rotation of Young diagrams by 45°, whereby the normalization no longer depends on the location in the spectrum. In addition, we explain heuristically the link with an earlier result by Kerov on the convergence to a generalized Gaussian process.


1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Phillips

The purpose of this note is to continue the author's study of the automorphisms of certain factors of type II1 Namely, those factors arising from the left regular representation of a free nonabelian group. Our main result shows that the outer conjugacy classes of automorphisms of such a factor are not countably separated. This had previously been shown only when the number of free generators was assumed to be infinite.


Author(s):  
Donald I. Cartwright ◽  
Wojciech MŁotkowski

AbstractLet Δ be a thick building of type Ã2, and let be its set of vertices. We study a commutative algebra of ‘averaging’ operators acting on the space of complex valued functions on . This algebra may be identified with a space of ‘biradial functions’ on , or with a convolution algebra of bi-K-invariant functions on G, if G is a sufficiently large group of ‘type-rotating’ automorphisms of Δ, and K is the subgroup of G fixing a given vertex. We describe the multiplicative functionals on and the corresponding spherical functions. We consider the C*-algebra induced by on l2, find its spectrum Σ, prove positive definiteness of a kernel kz for each z ∈ Σ, find explicity the spherical Plancherel formula for any group G of type rotating automorphisms, and discuss the irreducibility of the unitary representations appearing therein. For the class of buildings ΔJ arising from the groups ΓJ introduced in [2], this involves proving that the weak closure of is maximal abelian in the von Neumann algebra generated by the left regular representation of ΓJ.


Author(s):  
B. J. Tomiuk ◽  
J. F. Price

AbstractLet A be a semisimple modular annihilator Banach algebra and let LA be the left regular representation of A. We show how the strong radical of A is related to the strong radical of LA.


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