The generating function of strict Gelfand patterns and some formulas on characters of general linear groups
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The generating function of strict Gelfand patterns and some formulas on characters of general linear groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 0639.20022
author: Takeshi Tokuyama
published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Introducing a new generating function of strict Gelfand patterns, we give a formula which can be specialized to the following three important formulas in representation theory: Gelfand-Tsetlin parametrization, Stanley's formula, and Weyl's character formula. Gelfand patterns are triangular arrays of non-negative integers satisfying certain conditions. \textit{I. M. Gelfand} and \textit{M. L. Tsetlin} introduced them for the parametrization of the weight vectors of representation spaces of unitary groups [Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 71, 825--828 (1950; Zbl 0037.15301)]. \textit{R. P. Stanley}'s formula [Lect. Notes Math. 1234, 285--293 (1986; Zbl 0612.05008)] relates a generating function of strict Gelfand patterns with the `most singular' values of the Hall-Littlewood polynomials, which is a fundamental tool for investigating the representations of general linear groups over finite fields and local fields. Our formula is the following. Let \(\lambda\) be a partition of length \(n\), and \(\alpha =\lambda +\delta\) be its canonically corresponding distinct partition. Theorem. \[ J(\alpha;t;z_ 1,z_ 2,...,z_{n-1},z_ n)=\left\{\prod _{j>i}(z_ i+z_ jt)\right\}\, S_{\lambda}(z_ 1,z_ 2,...,z_{n-1},z_ n) \] where \(J\) is the generating function of strict Gelfand patterns defined in the paper and \(S_{\lambda}\) is the Schur function associated with the rational representation of \(\text{GL}(n,\mathbb C)\) with highest weight \(\lambda\). Substituting \(0, 1, -1\) for the parameter \(t\) in our theorem, we get the three classical formulas mentioned above. Besides, as a corollary, we have a neat generalization of Weyl's denominator formula of general linear groups. ``Alternating sign matrices'' is used as a naturally extended notion of permutations there.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20C30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05E15
zbMATH DE Number: 4042150
zbMATH Keywords: generating function
zbMATH Keywords: strict Gelfand patterns
zbMATH Keywords: Weyl's character formula
zbMATH Keywords: weight vectors
zbMATH Keywords: representation spaces of unitary groups
zbMATH Keywords: Hall-Littlewood polynomials
zbMATH Keywords: general linear groups
zbMATH Keywords: partition
zbMATH Keywords: rational representation
zbMATH Keywords: alternating sign matrices
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj/04040671
OpenAlex ID: W2091600172
DOI: 10.2969/JMSJ/04040671
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