Virasoro action on Schur function expansions, skew Young tableaux, and random walks

DOI10.1002/CPA.20062zbMATH Open1157.05337arXivmath/0309202OpenAlexW2138103914MaRDI QIDQ4651850FDOQ4651850

Authors: Mark Adler, Pierre van Moerbeke 

Publication date: 22 February 2005

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that some matrix integrals over U(n) satisfy an sl(2,R)-algebra of Virasoro constraints. Acting with these Virasoro generators on 2-dimensional Schur function expansions leads to difference relations on the coefficients of this expansions. These difference relations, set equal to zero, are precisely the backward and forward equations for non-intersecting random walks. The transition probabilities for these random walks appear as the coefficients of an expansion of U(n)-matrix integrals (of the type above), by inserting in the integral the product of two Schur polynomials associated with two partitions; the latter are specified by the initial and final positions of the non-intersecting random walk. An essential ingredient in this work is the generalization of the Murnaghan-Nakayama rule to the action of Virasoro on Schur polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309202

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zbMATH Keywords

random walkYoung tableauSchur functionVirasoro operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68)

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