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The symmetric group $S_n$ is the group of permutations of the set of integers $\{1,\dots,n\}$. This has $n!$ elements and is generated by the $n-1$ involutions exchanging consecutive integers. The symmetric groups form the simplest family of Coxeter groups.

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universality of Macdonald polynomials

There is a result by Sergei Kerov (in his book Asymptotic representation theory of the symmetric group and its applications in analysis) which somewhat charaterizes the Macdonald symmetric functions. …
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Asymptotic character theory of unitary groups via shifted Schur functions

Yes, they probably mean https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9709011 There, they consider the Jack generalization of the problem, but if you set $\theta=1$, then you get the theory of characters of the unitary …
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