On the SO(n+3) to SO(n) branching multiplicity space

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Abstract: We study the decomposition as an extrmSO(3)-module of the multiplicity space corresponding to the branching from extrmSO(n+3) to extrmSO(n). Here, extrmSO(n) (resp. extrmSO(3)) is considered embedded in extrmSO(n+3) in the upper left-hand block (resp. lower right-hand block). We show that when the highest weight of the irreducible representation of extrmSO(n) interlaces the highest weight of the irreducible representation of extrmSO(n+3), then the multiplicity space decomposes as a tensor product of lfloor(n+2)/2floor reducible representations of extrmSO(3).


Let \(n\geq2\). We embed the Lie group \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\) in the lower right hand corner of \(\mathrm{SO}(n + 3)\) and we embed \(\mathrm{SO}(n)\) in the upper left hand corner. First let \(n=2m\). Let the highest weight \(\mu\) of the irreducible representation \(\sigma\) of \(\mathrm{SO}(n)\) be given by the descending sequence \((\mu_1,\dots,\mu_m)\) and let the highest weight \(\lambda\) of the irreducible representation \(\pi\) of \(\mathrm{SO}(n+3)\) be given by the descending sequence \((\lambda_1,\dots,\lambda_{m+1})\). Here \(\mu_m\) and \(\lambda_{m+1}\) may be negative. Assume the sequences interlace, meaning that \(\lambda_i\geq |\mu_i|\geq\lambda_{i+1}\). Then the main result describes the branching multiplicity space \(\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathrm{SO}(n)}(\sigma,\pi)\) as an explicit tensor product of \(m+1\) representations of \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\). There is a similar result for the case \(n=2m+1\).











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