Stable Centres II: Finite Classical Groups

Abstract: Farahat and Higman constructed an algebra

m a t h r m F H

interpolating the centres of symmetric group algebras

Z (m a t h b b Z S_{n})

by proving that the structure constants in these rings are "polynomial in

n

". Inspired by a construction of

m a t h r m F H

due to Ivanov and Kerov, we prove for

G_{n} = G L_{n}, U_{n}, S p_{2 n}, O_{n}

, that the structure constants of

Z (m a t h b b Z G_{n} (m a t h b b F_{q}))

are "polynomial in

q^{n}

", allowing us to construct an equivalent of the Farahat-Higman algebra in each case.

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