Factorization of classical characters twisted by roots of unity: II

Publication date 23 December 2022

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Abstract: Fix natural numbers

n g e q 1

,

t g e q 2

and a primitive

t^{e x t t h}

root of unity

o m e g a

. In previous work with A. Ayyer (J. Alg., 2022), we studied the factorization of specialized irreducible characters of

e x t {G L}_{t n}

,

e x t {S O}_{2 t n + 1},

e x t {S p}_{2 t n}

and

e x t O_{2 t n}

evaluated at elements to

o m e g a^{j} x_{i}

for

0 l e q j l e q t - 1

and

1 l e q i l e q n

. In this work, we extend the results to the groups

e x t {G L}_{t n + m}

(0 l e q m l e q t - 1)

,

e x t {S O}_{2 t n + 3}

,

e x t {S p}_{2 t n + 2}

and

e x t O_{2 t n + 2}

evaluated at similar specializations: (1) for the

e x t {G L}_{t n + m} (m a t h b b C)

case, we set the first

t n

elements to

o m e g a^{j} x_{i}

for

0 l e q j l e q t - 1

and

1 l e q i l e q n

and the remaining

m

to

y, o m e g a y, d o t s, o m e g a^{m - 1} y

; (2) for the other three families, the same specializations but with

m = 1

. The main results of this paper are a characterization of partitions for which these characters vanish and a factorization of nonzero characters into those of smaller classical groups. Our motivation is the conjectures of Wagh and Prasad (Manuscripta Math., 2020) relating the irreducible representations of

e x t {S p i n}_{2 n + 1}

and

e x t {S L}_{2 n}

,

e x t {S L}_{2 n + 1}

and

e x t {S p}_{2 n}

as well as

e x t {S p i n}_{2 n + 2}

and

e x t {S p}_{2 n}

. Our proofs use the Weyl character formulas and the beta-sets of

t

-core partitions. Lastly, we give a bijection to prove that there are infinitely many

t

-core partitions for which these characters are nonzero.

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