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Commutative association schemes
Association schemes were originally introduced by Bose and his co-workers in
the design of statistical experiments. Since that point of inception, the
concept has proved useful in the study of group actions, in algebraic graph
theory, in algebraic coding theory, and in areas as far afield as knot theory
and numerical integration. This branch of the theory, viewed in this collection
of surveys as the "commutative case," has seen significant activity in the last
few decades. The goal of the present survey is to discuss the most important
new developments in several directions, including Gelfand pairs, cometric
association schemes, Delsarte Theory, spin models and the semidefinite
programming technique. The narrative follows a thread through this list of
topics, this being the contrast between combinatorial symmetry and
group-theoretic symmetry, culminating in Schrijver's SDP bound for binary codes
(based on group actions) and its connection to the Terwilliger algebra (based
on combinatorial symmetry). We propose this new role of the Terwilliger algebra
in Delsarte Theory as a central topic for future work.Comment: 36 page
Fast Fourier Transforms for Finite Inverse Semigroups
We extend the theory of fast Fourier transforms on finite groups to finite
inverse semigroups. We use a general method for constructing the irreducible
representations of a finite inverse semigroup to reduce the problem of
computing its Fourier transform to the problems of computing Fourier transforms
on its maximal subgroups and a fast zeta transform on its poset structure. We
then exhibit explicit fast algorithms for particular inverse semigroups of
interest--specifically, for the rook monoid and its wreath products by
arbitrary finite groups.Comment: ver 3: Added improved upper and lower bounds for the memory required
by the fast zeta transform on the rook monoid. ver 2: Corrected typos and
(naive) bounds on memory requirements. 30 pages, 0 figure
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