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Supercharacters, symmetric functions in noncommuting variables, extended abstract

  • Marcelo Aguiar
  • , Carlos André
  • , Carolina Benedetti
  • , Nantel Bergeron
  • , Zhi Chen
  • , Persi Diaconis
  • , Anders Hendrickson
  • , Samuel Hsiao
  • , I. Martin Isaacs
  • , Andrea Jedwab
  • , Kenneth Johnson
  • , Gizem Karaali
  • , Aaron Lauve
  • , Tung Le
  • , Stephen Lewis
  • , Huilan Li
  • , Kay Magaard
  • , Eric Marberg
  • , Jean Christophe Novelli
  • , Amy Pang
  • Franco Saliola, Lenny Tevlin, Jean Yves Thibon, Nathaniel Thiem, Vidya Venkateswaran, C. Ryan Vinroot, Ning Yan, Mike Zabrocki

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Abstract

We identify two seemingly disparate structures: supercharacters, a useful way of doing Fourier analysis on the group of unipotent uppertriangular matrices with coefficients in a finite field, and the ring of symmetric functions in noncommuting variables. Each is a Hopf algebra and the two are isomorphic as such. This allows developments in each to be transferred. The identification suggests a rich class of examples for the emerging field of combinatorial Hopf algebras.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages3-14
Number of pages12
StatePublished - 2011
Event23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, FPSAC'11 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: Jun 13 2011Jun 17 2011

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, FPSAC'11
Country/TerritoryIceland
CityReykjavik
Period6/13/116/17/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Algebra and Number Theory

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