Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2001
The Young–Fibonacci graph [ ][ ] is an important example (along with the Young lattice) of differential posets studied by Fomin and Stanley. For every differential poset there is a distinguished central measure called the Plancherel measure. We study the Plancherel measure and the associated Markov chain, the Plancherel process, on the Young–Fibonacci graph.
We establish a law of large numbers which implies that the Plancherel measure cannot be represented as a nontrivial mixture of central measures, i.e. is ergodic. Our second result claims the convergence of the level distributions of the Plancherel measure to the GEM(½) probability law in the space of nonnegative series with unit sum, which is a particular example of distribution from the class of Residual Allocation Models.
In order to obtain the Plancherel process as an image of a sequence of independent uniformly distributed random variables, we establish a new version of the Robinson–Schensted type correspondence between permutations and pairs of paths in the Young–Fibonacci graph. This correspondence is used to demonstrate a recurrence property of the Plancherel process.
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