45 research outputs found
Functional central limit theorems for vicious walkers
We consider the diffusion scaling limit of the vicious walker model that is a
system of nonintersecting random walks. We prove a functional central limit
theorem for the model and derive two types of nonintersecting Brownian motions,
in which the nonintersecting condition is imposed in a finite time interval
for the first type and in an infinite time interval for
the second type, respectively. The limit process of the first type is a
temporally inhomogeneous diffusion, and that of the second type is a temporally
homogeneous diffusion that is identified with a Dyson's model of Brownian
motions studied in the random matrix theory. We show that these two types of
processes are related to each other by a multi-dimensional generalization of
Imhof's relation, whose original form relates the Brownian meander and the
three-dimensional Bessel process. We also study the vicious walkers with wall
restriction and prove a functional central limit theorem in the diffusion
scaling limit.Comment: AMS-LaTeX, 20 pages, 2 figures, v6: minor corrections made for
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Multiplicity-free theorems of the restrictions of unitary highest weight modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs
The complex analytic methods have found a wide range of applications in the
study of multiplicity-free representations. This article discusses, in
particular, its applications to the question of restricting highest weight
modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs. We present a number of
multiplicity-free branching theorems that include the multiplicity-free
property of some of known results such as the Clebsh--Gordan--Pieri formula for
tensor products, the Plancherel theorem for Hermitian symmetric spaces (also
for line bundle cases), the Hua--Kostant--Schmid -type formula, and the
canonical representations in the sense of Vershik--Gelfand--Graev. Our method
works in a uniform manner for both finite and infinite dimensional cases, for
both discrete and continuous spectra, and for both classical and exceptional
cases
Fully commutative elements in finite and affine Coxeter groups
37 pages, 27 figuresInternational audienceAn element of a Coxeter group is fully commutative if any two of its reduced decompositions are related by a series of transpositions of adjacent commuting generators. These elements were extensively studied by Stembridge, in particular in the finite case. They index naturally a basis of the generalized Temperley--Lieb algebra. In this work we deal with any finite or affine Coxeter group , and we give explicit descriptions of fully commutative elements. Using our characterizations we then enumerate these elements according to their Coxeter length, and find in particular that the corrresponding growth sequence is ultimately periodic in each type. When the sequence is infinite, this implies that the associated Temperley--Lieb algebra has linear growth