Multiplicity-free branching rules for outer automorphisms of simple Lie algebras (Q873730)

The author finds explicit multiplicity-free branching rules of some series of irreducible finite dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras \(g\) to the fixed point subalgebras \(g^\sigma\) of the outer automorphisms \(\sigma\). The representations have highest weights which are scalar multiples of fundamental weights or linear combinations of two scalar ones. The list of pairs of Lie algebras \((g,g^\sigma)\) includes an exceptional symmetric pair \((E_6,F_4)\) and also a non-symmetric pair \((D_4,G_2)\) as well as a number of classical symmetric pairs. Some of the branching rules were known and other are new, but all the rules in the paper are proved by a unified method.