Correlation functions of the shifted Schur measure

Abstract

The shifted Schur measure introduced in [TW2] is a measure on the set of all strict partitions, which is defined by Schur $Q$-functions. The main aim of this paper is to calculate the correlation function of this measure, which is given by a pfaffian. As an application, we prove that a limit distribution of parts of partitions with respect to a shifted version of the Plancherel measure for symmetric groups is identical with the corresponding distribution of the original Plancherel measure. In particular, we obtain a limit distribution of the length of the longest ascent pair for a random permutation. Further we give expressions of the mean value and the variance of the size of partitions with respect to the measure defined by Hall-Littlewood functions.