Stabilized plethysms for the classical Lie groups (Q1024339)

The paper is concerned with the plethysms of the Weyl characters associated to the complex classical groups \(GL_{n}(\mathbb C)\), \(SO_{2n+1}(\mathbb C)\), \(Sp_{2n}(\mathbb C)\) or \(SO_{2n}(\mathbb C)\) by the symmetric functions. These plethysms stabilize in large rank. In the case of a power sum plethysm, it is shown that the coefficients of the decomposition of this stabilized form on the basis of Weyl characters are branching coefficients which can be determined by a simple algorithm. This generalizes in particular some classical results by Littlewood on the power sum plethysms of Schur functions. The author also establishes explicit formulas for the outer multiplicities appearing in the decomposition of the tensor square of any irreducible finite-dimensional module into its symmetric and antisymmetric parts.