Anisotropic Young diagrams and Jack symmetric functions (Q1576933)

The author states that the basic observation behind this paper is that the analytic notion of interlacing sequences is a natural generalization of the combinatorial notion of Young diagram. The author identifies Young diagrams with pairs of interlacing sequences. Then he uses partial fractions to associate two discrete probability distributions with a pair of interlacing sequences. These distributions generalize the transition and co-transition distributions \(p_\lambda (\Lambda)=(\dim \Lambda)/|\Lambda |(\dim \lambda)\) and \(q_\Lambda (\lambda)=(\dim \lambda)/(\dim \Lambda)\), \(\lambda \nearrow \Lambda\), defined in combinatorial terms. The moments of the transition distributions associated with a pair of interlacing sequences are calculated. It is shown that the first three moments depend on the number of boxes rather than on the details of the diagram. The author gives a short analytic proof of the \(\alpha\)-hook formula discovered by \textit{R. P. Stanley} [Adv. Math. 77, No. 1, 76-115 (1989; Zbl 0743.05072)]. Then the theorem is proved. It generalizes the family of central measures on the Young lattice (or, equivalently, the family of spherical functions on the infinite symmetric group) to the case of Jack symmetric polynomials.