This is a presentation of recent work on quantum permutation groups. Contains: a short introduction to operator algebras and Hopf algebras; quantum permutation groups, and their basic properties; diagrams, integration formulae, asymptotic laws, matrix models; the hyperoctahedral quantum group, free wreath products, quantum automorphism groups of finite graphs, graphs having no quantum symmetry; complex Hadamard matrices, cocycle twists of the symmetric group, quantum groups acting on 4 points; remarks...

This is a presentation of recent work on quantum permutation groups, complex Hadamard matrices, and the connections between them. A long list of problems is included. We include as well some conjectural statements about matrix models.

We introduce the notion of a completely quantum C*-system (A,G,α), i.e. a C*-algebra A with an action α of a compact quantum group G. Spectral properties of completely quantum systems are investigated. In particular, it is shown that G-finite elements form the dense *-subalgebra of A. Furthermore, properties of ergodic systems are studied. We prove that there exists a unique α-invariant state ω on A. Its properties are described by a family of modular operators ${{\sigma }_z}_{z\in ℂ}$ acting on . It turns out that ω...

Associated to an Hadamard matrix $H\in M_N\left(ℂ\right)$ is the spectral measure μ ∈ [0,N] of the corresponding Hopf image algebra, A = C(G) with $G\subset S{⁺}_N$. We study a certain family of discrete measures ${\mu }^r\in [0,N]$, coming from the idempotent state theory of G, which converge in Cesàro limit to μ. Our main result is a duality formula of type ${\int }_0^N{(x/N)}^{p}d{\mu }^r\left(x\right)={\int }_0^N{(x/N)}^{r}d{\nu }^p\left(x\right)$, where ${\mu }^r,{\nu }^r$ are the truncations of the spectral measures μ,ν associated to $H,H^t$. We also prove, using these truncations ${\mu }^r,{\nu }^r$, that for any deformed Fourier matrix $H=F_M{\otimes }_Q{F}_N$ we have μ = ν.