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Edited by
R. A. Bailey, University of St Andrews, Scotland,Peter J. Cameron, University of St Andrews, Scotland,Yaokun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
This is an introduction to representation theory and harmonic analysis on finite groups. This includes, in particular, Gelfand pairs (with applications to diffusion processes à la Diaconis) and induced representations (focusing on the little group method of Mackey and Wigner). We also discuss Laplace operators and spectral theory of finite regular graphs. In the last part, we present the representation theory of GL(2, Fq), the general linear group of invertible 2 × 2 matrices with coefficients in a finite field with q elements. More precisely, we revisit the classical Gelfand–Graev representation of GL(2, Fq) in terms of the so-called multiplicity-free triples and their associated Hecke algebras. The presentation is not fully self-contained: most of the basic and elementary facts are proved in detail, some others are left as exercises, while, for more advanced results with no proof, precise references are provided.
Let G be a p-adic classical group. The representations in a given Bernstein component can be viewed as modules for the corresponding Hecke algebra—the endomorphism algebra of a pro-generator of the given component. Using Heiermann’s construction of these algebras, we describe the Bernstein components of the Gelfand–Graev representation for $G=\mathrm {SO}(2n+1)$, $\mathrm {Sp}(2n)$, and $\mathrm {O}(2n)$.
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