Symmetric spectral synthesis

According to the famous and pioneering result of Laurent Schwartz, any closed translation invariant linear space of continuous functions on the reals is synthesizable from its exponential monomials. Due to a result of D. I. Gurevič there is no straightforward extension of this result to higher dimensions. Following Székelyhidi (Acta Math Hungar 153(1):120–142, 2017), with the aid of Gelfand pairs and K-spherical functions, K-synthesizability of K-varieties can be described. In this paper we contribute to this direction in the special case when K is the symmetric group of order d.

Gelfand Pairs Involving the Wreath Product of Finite Abelian Groups with Symmetric Groups

It is well known that the pair $(\mathcal {S}_n,\mathcal {S}_{n-1})$ is a Gelfand pair where $\mathcal {S}_n$ is the symmetric group on n elements. In this paper, we prove that if G is a finite group then $(G\wr \mathcal {S}_n, G\wr \mathcal {S}_{n-1}),$ where $G\wr \mathcal {S}_n$ is the wreath product of G by $\mathcal {S}_n,$ is a Gelfand pair if and only if G is abelian.

Strong Gelfand pairs of symmetric groups

A strong Gelfand pair is a pair [Formula: see text], of finite groups such that the Schur ring determined by the [Formula: see text]-classes [Formula: see text], is a commutative ring. We find all strong Gelfand pairs [Formula: see text]. We also define an extra strong Gelfand pair [Formula: see text], this being a strong Gelfand pair of maximal dimension, and show that in this case [Formula: see text] must be abelian.

OPTIMAL LINE PACKINGS FROM FINITE GROUP ACTIONS

We provide a general program for finding nice arrangements of points in real or complex projective space from transitive actions of finite groups. In many cases, these arrangements are optimal in the sense of maximizing the minimum distance. We introduce our program in terms of general Schurian association schemes before focusing on the special case of Gelfand pairs. Notably, our program unifies a variety of existing packings with heretofore disparate constructions. In addition, we leverage our program to construct the first known infinite family of equiangular lines with Heisenberg symmetry.