Skip to main contentSkip to search
Episciences
Open Access Journals
Sign in(new window)
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science logo
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science logo
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Sign in(new window)
Articles & Issues
All articlesAll accepted articlesAll volumesLast volumeSectionsSpecial issuesAuthors
About
The journalIndexing
Boards
Publish
For authorsEthical charter
Submit
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science logo
Contact
|
Credits
eISSN 1365-8050
|
RSS
|
Atom
Episciences
Documentation
|
Acknowledgements
|
Publishing policy
Accessibility: non-compliant
|
Legal mentions
|
Privacy statement
|
Terms of use
  1. Home > Articles & Issues >
  2. Articles >
  3. Nonzero coefficients ...
Conference paper

Nonzero coefficients in restrictions and tensor products of supercharacters of $U_n(q)$ (extended abstract)

Stephen Lewis (1), Nathaniel Thiem (2)
(1) Department of Mathematics [Seattle]
(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado
Download article
Open on HAL
Imported on
January 31, 2017
Published on
December 31, 2009
Last modified on
March 31, 2025
Volume
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AN, 22nd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2010)
Proceedings
DOI
10.46298/dmtcs.2840
License
https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1
National Science Foundation
0854893
FRG: Collaborative Research: Characters, Liftings, and Types: Investigations in p-adic Representation Theory
Indicators
533
Views
498
Downloads

Nonzero coefficients in restrictions and tensor products of supercharacters of $U_n(q)$ (extended abstract)

Stephen Lewis (1), Nathaniel Thiem (2)
(1) Department of Mathematics [Seattle]
(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado
Abstract
English
The standard supercharacter theory of the finite unipotent upper-triangular matrices $U_n(q)$ gives rise to a beautiful combinatorics based on set partitions. As with the representation theory of the symmetric group, embeddings of $U_m(q) \subseteq U_n(q)$ for $m \leq n$ lead to branching rules. Diaconis and Isaacs established that the restriction of a supercharacter of $U_n(q)$ is a nonnegative integer linear combination of supercharacters of $U_m(q)$ (in fact, it is polynomial in $q$). In a first step towards understanding the combinatorics of coefficients in the branching rules of the supercharacters of $U_n(q)$, this paper characterizes when a given coefficient is nonzero in the restriction of a supercharacter and the tensor product of two supercharacters. These conditions are given uniformly in terms of complete matchings in bipartite graphs.
French
La théorie standard des supercaractères des matrices triangulaires supérieures unipotentes finies $U_n(q)$ donne lieu à une merveilleuse combinatoire basée sur les partitions d'ensembles. Comme avec la théorie des représentations du groupe symétrique, Les plongements $U_m(q) \subseteq U_n(q)$ pour $m \leq n$ mènent aux règles de branchement. Diaconis et Isaacs ont montré que la restriction d'un supercaractère de $U_n(q)$ est une combinaison linéaire des supercaractères de $U_m(q)$ avec des coefficients entiers non négatifs (en fait, elle est polynomiale en $q$). Dans une première étape vers la compréhension de la combinatoire des coefficients dans les règles de branchement des supercaractères de $U_n(q)$, ce texte caractérise les coefficients non nuls dans la restriction d'un supercaractère et dans le produit des tenseurs de deux supercaractères. Ces conditions sont données uniformément en termes des couplages complets dans des graphes bipartis.
Keywords
  • [MATH.MATH-CO]Mathematics [math]/Combinatorics [math.CO]
  • [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
  • supercharacters
  • set-partitions
  • matching
  • bipartite graphs
  • unipotent upper-triangular matrices
Cited by

Source: OpenCitations

  • A supercharacter analogue for normality

    Journal of Algebra

    Authors : Eric Marberg ORCID

    Journal reference : Volume 332, 2011, pp. 334-365

    DOI : 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2011.02.019
Preview
Loading PDF preview...