Abstract:
We consider the parabolic restriction of representations of
the group $GL(n+1,q)$ to the group $GL(n,q)$. The branching
of representations under this restriction is simple. We
present a direct proof of this fact in the case of the so-called
principal series representations. This statement is reduced to the
commutativity of the centralizer of the Hecke algebras
$Z(H(n,q),H(n+1,q))$; we prove it using an auxiliary
combinatorial theory.