On averages of randomized class functions on the symmetric groups and their asymptotics
The second author had previously obtained explicit generating functions for moments of characteristic polynomials of permutation matrices ( points). In this paper, we generalize many aspects of this situation. We introduce random shifts of the eigenvalues of the permutation matrices, in two different ways: independently or not for each subset of eigenvalues associated to the same cycle. We also consider vastly more general functions than the characteristic polynomial of a permutation matrix, by...