Stochastic Monotonicity in Young Graph and Thoma Theorem

We show that the order on probability measures, inherited from the dominance order on the Young diagrams, is preserved under natural maps reducing the number of boxes in a diagram by 1. As a corollary, we give a new proof of the Thoma theorem on the structure of characters of the infinite symmetric...

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Main Authors: Bufetov, Alexey, Gorin, Vadim
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115910
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9828-5862
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Summary:We show that the order on probability measures, inherited from the dominance order on the Young diagrams, is preserved under natural maps reducing the number of boxes in a diagram by 1. As a corollary, we give a new proof of the Thoma theorem on the structure of characters of the infinite symmetric group. We present several conjectures generalizing our result. One of them (if it is true) would imply the Kerov's conjecture on the classification of all homomorphisms from the algebra of symmetric functions into R, which are non-negative on Hall-Littlewood polynomials.