Stable centres of wreath products

DOI10.5802/ALCO.264zbMATH Open1512.20091arXiv2107.03752OpenAlexW4368405130MaRDI QIDQ6042820FDOQ6042820

Authors: Christopher Ryba 

Publication date: 4 May 2023

Published in: Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A result of Farahat and Higman shows that there is a ``universal algebra, $mathrmFH$, interpolating the centres of symmetric group algebras, $Z(mathbbZ{S}_n)$. We explain that this algebra is isomorphic to $mathcalRotimesLambda$, where $mathcalR$ is the ring of integer-valued polynomials and $Lambda$ is the ring of symmetric functions. Moreover, the isomorphism is via ``evaluation at Jucys-Murphy elements, which leads to character formulae for symmetric groups. Then, we generalise this result to wreath products $Gammawr{S}_n$ of a fixed finite group $Gamma$. This involves constructing wreath-product versions $mathcal{R}_{G}amma$ and $Lambda(Gamm{a}_{\ast })$ of $mathcalR$ and $Lambda$, respectively, which are interesting in their own right (for example, both are Hopf algebras). We show that the universal algebra for wreath products, $mathrm{FH}_{G}amma$, is isomorphic to $mathcal{R}_{G}ammaotimesLambda(Gamm{a}_{\ast })$ and use this to compute the $p$-blocks of wreath products.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03752

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zbMATH Keywords

wreath productsJucys-Murphy elementsFarahat-Higman algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Center, normalizer (invariant elements) (associative rings and algebras) (16U70) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

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