On the minor problem and branching coefficients

DOI10.4171/AIHPD/120MaRDI QIDQ2159582zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Bernard Zuber

Publication date 1 August 2022

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré D. Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions (AIHPD) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03006

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{SU}(n)\) branching coefficientsCauchy-Rayleigh interlacing theoremminor problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Harmonic analysis on specific compact groups (43A75)

Abstract: The Minor problem, namely the study of the spectrum of a principal submatrix of a Hermitian matrix taken at random on its orbit under conjugation, is revisited, with emphasis on the use of orbital integrals and on the connection with branching coefficients in the decomposition of an irreducible representation of U(n), resp. SU(n), into irreps of U(n-1), resp. SU(n-1).

Review text

The paper under review deals with the so-called minor problem, i.e., finding the eigenvalues of \((n-1)\times (n-1)\) submatrices of a fixed \(n\times n\) Hermitian matrix whose spectrum is known. The author bridges this problem with branching rules for special unitary groups, namely the multiplicities (or coefficients) of restrictions of highest weight irreducible representations of \(SU(n)\) to \(SU(n-1)\). The main result is contained in Theorem 2, it describes the multiplicities in terms of integrals over \(U(n)\)-orbits and orbital measures.

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