Skew Howe duality and $q$-Krawtchouk polynomial ensemble

A. Nazarov   ; P. Nikitin   ; D. Sarafannikov

Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Representation theory, dynamical systems, combinatorial methods. Part XXXIV, Tome 517 (2022), pp. 106-124

Résumé

We consider the decomposition into irreducible components of the exterior algebra $\bigwedge\left(\mathbb{C}^{n}\otimes \left(\mathbb{C}^{k}\right)^{*}\right)$ regarded as a $GL_{n}\times GL_{k}$ module. Irreducible $GL_{n}\times GL_{k}$ representations are parameterized by pairs of Young diagrams $(\lambda,\bar{\lambda}')$, where $\bar{\lambda}'$ is the complement conjugate diagram to $\lambda$ inside the $n\times k$ rectangle. We set the probability of a diagram as a normalized specialization of the character for the corresponding irreducible component. For the principal specialization we get the probability that is equal to the ratio of the $q$-dimension for the irreducible component over the $q$-dimension of the exterior algebra. We demonstrate that this probability distribution can be described by the $q$-Krawtchouk polynomial ensemble. We derive the limit shape and prove the central limit theorem for the fluctuations in the limit when $n,k$ tend to infinity and $q$ tends to one at comparable rates.

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