SELBERG ZETA FUNCTIONS OF INFINITE SYMMETRIC GROUPS (Q4660372)

From the author's abstract: ``The main purpose of this paper is to seek a reasonable formulation of Selberg zeta-functions of infinite symmetric groups and calculate actual candidates of them. In order to achieve this, we introduce a (Selberg-type) zeta-function attached to a finite group action \(G\to X\). As candidates of Selberg zeta-functions of the infinite symmetric group \({\mathfrak S}_\infty\), we calculate a (normalized) limit of the zeta functions of finite symmetric group actions.'' For symmetric groups \(G\) acting in discrete sets \(X\) the paper defines \textit{curve} to mean a map from \(\mathbb Z\) to \(X\), a \textit{closed} curve to be a period of such map, and \textit{\(G\)-homotopic} means two curves are \(G\)-equivalent. For finite situations, the author defines appropriate zeta-functions straight away. The final section deals with an infinite setting, where, if \(G_n\) is a symmetric group acting on \(n\) elements, it is shown that the resulting expressions (tractable) converge as \(n\to \infty\). Page 348 notationally suggests that \(\{G_n\}^\infty_n\) itself converges, but this is not explicitly explained. On the other hand, the limit formulae are quite explicit.