Comparison of Gelfand-Tsetlin bases for alternating and symmetric groups

DOI10.1007/S10468-017-9706-ZMaRDI QIDQ1697175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amritanshu Prasad, T. Geetha

Publication date 15 February 2018

Published in Algebras and Representation Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04424

zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupassociatorBratteli diagramGelfand-Tsetlin basissymmetric groupYoung's orthogonal basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

Abstract: Young's orthogonal basis is a classical basis for an irreducible representation of a symmetric group. This basis happens to be a Gelfand-Tsetlin basis for the chain of symmetric groups. It is well-known that the chain of alternating groups, just like the chain of symmetric groups, has multiplicity-free restrictions for irreducible representations. Therefore each irreducible representation of an alternating group also admits Gelfand-Tsetlin bases. Moreover, each such representation is either the restriction of, or a subrepresentation of, the restriction of an irreducible representation of a symmetric group. In this article, we describe a recursive algorithm to write down the expansion of each Gelfand-Tsetlin basis vector for an irreducible representation of an alternating group in terms of Young's orthogonal basis of the ambient representation of the symmetric group. This algorithm is implemented with the Sage Mathematical Software.

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• SageMath

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