The high-dimension limit of characters of compact reductive Lie groups and restrictions on the production of quantum randomness

Abstract

For any element $g$ of compact reductive group $G$ we investigate the asymptotic behavior of its normalized irreducible character in the high-dimension limit, $\frac{χ_λ(g)}{d_λ}$. We show that when $G$ is simple the limit vanishes besides identity element. For semisimple groups one gets the same results under the additional assumption that dimensions of irreducible representations of all simple components are going to infinity. Using the notion of approximate $t$-designs we connect this observations with bounds on the production of quantum randomness in large quantum systems.