Irreducible representations of the group of infinite upper triangular matrices

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. L. Ostrovskii
Keyword(s):  
Irreducible Representations ◽  
Triangular Matrices ◽  
Upper Triangular Matrices

scholarly journals Shell Tableaux: A Set Partition Analog of Vacillating Tableaux

10.37236/8241 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Ly
Keyword(s):  
Irreducible Representations ◽  
Character Theory ◽  
Set Partition ◽  
Set Partitions ◽  
Triangular Matrices ◽  
Upper Triangular Matrices ◽  
Weyl Duality ◽  
Supercharacter Theory ◽  
Combinatorial Representation Theory ◽  
Centralizer Algebra

Schur–Weyl duality is a fundamental framework in combinatorial representation theory. It intimately relates the irreducible representations of a group to the irreducible representations of its centralizer algebra. We investigate the analog of Schur–Weyl duality for the group of unipotent upper triangular matrices over a finite field.  In this case, the character theory of these upper triangular matrices is "wild" or unattainable. Thus we employ a generalization, known as supercharacter theory, that creates a striking variation on the character theory of the symmetric group with combinatorics built from set partitions. In this paper, we present a combinatorial formula for calculating a restriction and induction of supercharacters based on statistics of set partitions and seashell inspired diagrams. We use these formulas to create a graph that encodes the decomposition of a tensor space, and develop an analog of Young tableaux, known as shell tableaux, to index paths in this graph. 

scholarly journals Restricting Supercharacters of the Finite Group of Unipotent Uppertriangular Matrices

10.37236/112 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Thiem ◽  
Vidya Venkateswaran
Keyword(s):  
Finite Group ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Finite Field ◽  
Symmetric Group ◽  
Irreducible Representations ◽  
Combinatorial Theory ◽  
Set Partitions ◽  
Triangular Matrices ◽  
Upper Triangular Matrices ◽  
Supercharacter Theory

It is well-known that understanding the representation theory of the finite group of unipotent upper-triangular matrices $U_n$ over a finite field is a wild problem. By instead considering approximately irreducible representations (supercharacters), one obtains a rich combinatorial theory analogous to that of the symmetric group, where we replace partition combinatorics with set-partitions. This paper studies the supercharacter theory of a family of subgroups that interpolate between $U_{n-1}$ and $U_n$. We supply several combinatorial indexing sets for the supercharacters, supercharacter formulas for these indexing sets, and a combinatorial rule for restricting supercharacters from one group to another. A consequence of this analysis is a Pieri-like restriction rule from $U_n$ to $U_{n-1}$ that can be described on set-partitions (analogous to the corresponding symmetric group rule on partitions).

Applying quick exponentiation for block upper triangular matrices

2006 ◽  
Vol 183 (2) ◽  
pp. 729-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Álvarez ◽  
Francisco Ferrández ◽  
José-Francisco Vicent ◽  
Antonio Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Triangular Matrices ◽  
Upper Triangular Matrices

Nonlinear Jordan centralizer of strictly upper triangular matrices

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 197-201
Author(s):  
Driss Aiat Hadj Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Triangular Matrices ◽  
Upper Triangular Matrices ◽  
Zero Characteristic

Let ℱ be a field of zero characteristic, let Nn(ℱ) denote the algebra of n×n strictly upper triangular matrices with entries in ℱ, and let f:Nn(ℱ)→Nn(ℱ) be a nonlinear Jordan centralizer of Nn(ℱ),that is, a map satisfying that f(XY+YX)=Xf(Y)+f(Y)X, for all X, Y∈Nn(ℱ). We prove that f(X)=λX+η(X) where λ∈ℱ and η is a map from Nn(ℱ) into its center 𝒵(Nn(ℱ)) satisfying that η(XY+YX)=0 for every X,Yin Nn(F).

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