Semifinite harmonic functions on the zigzag graph

Abstract

We study semifinite harmonic functions on the zigzag graph, which corresponds to Pieri's rule for the fundamental quasisymmetric functions $\{F_{\lambda}\}$. The main problem, which we solve here, is to classify the indecomposable semifinite harmonic functions on this graph. We describe the set of classification parameters and an explicit construction that produces a semifinite indecomposable harmonic function out of every point of this set. We also establish a semifinite analog of the Vershik-Kerov ring theorem.