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Let H(n) be the group of 3x3 uni-uppertriangular matrices with entries in Z/nZ, the integers mod n. We show that the simple random walk converges to the uniform distribution in order n^2 steps. The argument uses Fourier analysis and is surprisingly challenging. It introduces novel techniques for bounding the spectrum which are useful for a variety of walks on a variety of groups.
Factorial Schur functions are generalizations of Schur functions that have, in addition to the usual variables, a second family of "shift" parameters. We show that a factorial Schur function times a deformation of the Weyl denominator may be expressed as the partition function of a particular statistical-mechanical system (six vertex model). The proof is based on the Yang-Baxter equation. There is a deformation parameter $t$ which may be specialized in different ways. If $t=-1$, then we recover the expression of the factorial Schur function as a ratio of alternating polynomials. If $t=0$, we recover the description as a sum over tableaux. If $t=\infty$ we recover a description of Lascoux that was previously considered by McNamara. We also are able to prove using the Yang-Baxter equation the asymptotic symmetry of the factorial Schur functions in the shift parameters. Finally, we give a proof using our methods of the dual Cauchy identity for factorial Schur functions. Thus using our methods we are able to give thematic proofs of many of the properties of factorial Schur functions.
We consider a natural basis of the Iwahori fixed vectors in the Whittaker model of an unramified principal series representation of a split semisimple p- adic group, indexed by the Weyl group. We show that the elements of this basis may be computed from one another by applying Demazure-Lusztig operators. The precise identities involve correction terms, which may be calculated by a combinatorial algorithm that is identical to the computation of the fibers of the Bott-Samelson resolution of a Schubert variety. The Demazure-Lusztig operators satisfy the braid and quadratic relations satisfied by the ordinary Hecke operators, and this leads to an action of the affine Hecke algebra on functions on the maximal torus of the L-group. This action was previously described by Lusztig using equivariant K-theory of the flag variety, leading to the proof of the Deligne-Langlands conjecture by Kazhdan and Lusztig. In the present paper, the action is applied to give a simple formula for the basis vectors of the Iwahori Whittaker functions.
Spherical Whittaker functions on the metaplectic n-fold cover of GL(r+1) over a nonarchimedean local field containing n distinct n-th roots of unity may be expressed as the partition functions of statistical mechanical systems that are variants of the six-vertex model. If n=1 then in view of the Casselman-Shalika formula this fact is related to Tokuyama's deformation of the Weyl character formula. It is shown that various properties of these Whittaker functions may be expressed in terms of the commutativity of row transfer matrices for the system. Potentially these properties (which are already proved by other methods, but very nontrivial) are amenable to proof by the Yang-Baxter equation.
The Casselman basis of Iwahori fixed vectors in a principal series representation of a p-adic group G is dual to the standard intertwining operators. To compute it one must compute a matrix m(u,v) indexed by pairs of Weyl group elements. This matrix is upper triangular with respect to the Bruhat order. In general this matrix is difficult to compute but it is shown that certain elements have a nice expression. This is also true of the inverse matrix to m(u,v). This leads to interesting conjectures regarding the Bruhat order.
We show that within the six-vertex model there is a parametrized Yang-Baxter equation with nonabelian parameter group GL(2)xGL(1) at the center of the disordered regime. As an application we rederive deformations of the Weyl character formule of Tokuyama and of Hamel and King.
We provide an elementary and self-contained derivation of formulae for products and ratios of characteristic polynomials from classical groups using classical results due to Weyl and Littlewood.
In this paper we will study certain models of irreducible admissible representations of the split special orthogonal group $SO(2n+1)$ over a nonarchimedean local field. If $n=1$, these models were considered by Waldspurger. If $n=2$, they were considered by Novodvorsky and Piatetski-Shapiro \cite{NP}, who called them {\it Bessel models}. They arise from a variety of Rankin-Selberg integrals nad the resultos of this paper will naturally have applications to the study of L-functions. They also arise in the study of the theta correspondence between $SO(2n+1)$ and the double cover of $Sp(2n)$, and they will therefore be of importance in generalizing the work of Waldspurger. As a global application we consider the Eisenstein series on $SO(2n+1)$ formed with a cuspidal automorphic representation $π$ on $GL(n)$, and we show that its Bessel period (6.2) is essentially a product of L-series. This generalizes work of Böcherer and Mizumoto.