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CHARACTER THEORY OF INFINITE WREATH PRODUCTS ROBERT BOYER Received 31 August 2003 and in revised form 19 March 2005 The representation theory of infinite wreath product groups is developed by means of the relationship between their group algebras and conjugacy classes with those of the infinite symmetric group. Further, since these groups are inductive limits of finite groups, their finite characters can be classified as limits of normalized irreducible characters of prelimit finite groups. This identification is called the “asymptotic character formula.” The K0 - invariant of the group C-algebra is also determined. 1. Preliminaries The purpose of this paper is to develop the representation theory of infinite wreath prod- uct groups (defined in Section 2) by exploiting the relationship between their group alge- bras and conjugacy classes with those of the infinite symmetric group [ 16]. Furthermore, since these groups are not type I, that is, the unitary dual of these groups is not standard Borel space, their character theory and group C-algebra play a special role in their rep- resentation theory. For instance, among the substitutes for the group dual are the space of all finite characters and the space of primitive ideals of group C-algebra. Both these spaces are standard Borel spaces, so they can be effectively parameterized. Drawing at- tention away from irreducible representations to factor representations with characters allows the development of harmonic analysis for groups that are not type I. The infinite wreath product groups are inductive limits of finite groups, so that their C-group algebra is, in fact, an AF-algebra; that is, an inductive limit of finite-dimen- sional C-algebras. Such algebras have been well studied by means of their K -group 0 invariant. For the wreath product groups, the K0 -group has an order structure which is