Decomposition of the conjugacy representation of the symmetric groups (Q1355269)

Consider the two natural representations of the symmetric group \(S_n\) on the group algebra \(C[S_n]\): the regular representation and the conjugacy representation (acting on the basis by conjugation). \textit{R. M. Adin} and \textit{A. Frumkin} [Isr. J. Math. 59, 234-240 (1987; Zbl 0639.20010)]\ proved that the quotient of the norms of the regular character and the conjugacy character and the cosine of the angle between them tend to \(1\) when \(n\) tends to infinity. For a partition \(\lambda=(\lambda_1,\lambda_2,\dots,\lambda_k)\) of \(n\) where \(\lambda_1\geq\cdots\geq\lambda_k\) are positive integers with \(n=\lambda_1+\cdots+\lambda_k\), let us define \(M(\lambda)=\max(\lambda_1/n,k/n)\). Let \(m(\lambda)\) be the multiplicity of the irreducible representation \(S^\lambda\) in the conjugacy representation and let \(f^\lambda\) be the multiplicity of \(S^\lambda\) in the regular representation. In the paper under review, the author proves that \(m(\lambda)/f^\lambda=1+o(1)\) for any partition \(\lambda\) of \(n\) with \(M(\lambda)=o(1)\) as \(n\to\infty\) (Theorem 2.1). If \(M(\lambda)\) is bounded away from 1 then \(m(\lambda)\) is asymptotically proportional to \(f^\lambda\) as Theorem 2.2 shows.