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Representations of the group of two-diagonal triangular matrices

Representation Theory 2025-07-08 v1

Abstract

Let G be a Lie group, g=Lie(G)g = Lie(G) - its Lie algebra, gg* - the dual vector space and G^\widehat G - the set of equivalence classes of unitary irreducible representations of GG. The orbit method [1] establishes a correspondence between points of G^\widehat G and GG-orbits in gg*. For many Lie groups it gives the answers to all major problems of representation theory in terms of coadjoint orbits. Formally, the notions and statements of the orbit method make sense when GG is infinite-dimensional Lie group, or an algebraic group over a topological field or ring KK, whose additive group is self dual (e.g., pp-adic or finite). In this paper, we introduce the big family of finite groups GnG_n, for which the orbit method works perfectly well. Namely, let Nn(K)N_n(K) be the algebraic group of upper unitriangular (n+1)×(n+1)(n+1)\times(n+1) matrices with entries from KK, and FqF_q be the finite field with qq elements. We define GnG_n as the quotient of of the group Nn+1(Fq)N_{n+1}(F_q) over its second commutator subgroup.

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@article{arxiv.2507.03769,
  title  = {Representations of the group of two-diagonal triangular matrices},
  author = {Dmitry Fuchs and Alexandre Kirillov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.03769},
  year   = {2025}
}
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