Hopf monoids from class functions on unitriangular matrices

DOI10.2140/ANT.2013.7.1743MaRDI QIDQ380387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcelo Aguiar, Nantel Bergeron, Nathaniel Thiem

Publication date 13 November 2013

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1572

zbMATH Keywords

class functionHopf algebraHopf monoidsuperclass functionunitriangular matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Hopf algebras and their applications (16T05) Connections of Hopf algebras with combinatorics (16T30) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33)

Abstract: We build, from the collection of all groups of unitriangular matrices, Hopf monoids in Joyal's category of species. Such structure is carried by the collection of class function spaces on those groups, and also by the collection of superclass function spaces, in the sense of Diaconis and Isaacs. Superclasses of unitriangular matrices admit a simple description from which we deduce a combinatorial model for the Hopf monoid of superclass functions, in terms of the Hadamard product of the Hopf monoids of linear orders and of set partitions. This implies a recent result relating the Hopf algebra of superclass functions on unitriangular matrices to symmetric functions in noncommuting variables. We determine the algebraic structure of the Hopf monoid: it is a free monoid in species, with the canonical Hopf structure. As an application, we derive certain estimates on the number of conjugacy classes of unitriangular matrices.

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