Asymptotic Combinatorics with Applications to Mathematical Physics: A European Mathematical Summer School held at the Euler Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 9-20, 2001

by Anatoly M. Vershik (Editor)

Overview

At the Summer School Saint Petersburg 2001, the main lecture courses bore on recent progress in asymptotic representation theory: those written up for this volume deal with the theory of representations of infinite symmetric groups, and groups of infinite matrices over finite fields; Riemann-Hilbert problem techniques applied to the study of spectra of random matrices and asymptotics of Young diagrams with Plancherel measure; the corresponding central limit theorems; the combinatorics of modular curves and random trees with application to QFT; free probability and random matrices, and Hecke algebras.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540403128
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	08/27/2003
Series:	Lecture Notes in Mathematics , #1815
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Random matrices, orthogonal polynomials and Riemann — Hilbert problem.- Asymptotic representation theory and Riemann — Hilbert problem.- Four Lectures on Random Matrix Theory.- Free Probability Theory and Random Matrices.- Algebraic geometry,symmetric functions and harmonic analysis.- A Noncommutative Version of Kerov’s Gaussian Limit for the Plancherel Measure of the Symmetric Group.- Random trees and moduli of curves.- An introduction to harmonic analysis on the infinite symmetric group.- Two lectures on the asymptotic representation theory and statistics of Young diagrams.- III Combinatorics and representation theory.- Characters of symmetric groups and free cumulants.- Algebraic length and Poincaré series on reflection groups with applications to representations theory.- Mixed hook-length formula for degenerate a fine Hecke algebras.