On Horn's problem and its volume function

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03646-7zbMATH Open1487.22016arXiv1904.00752OpenAlexW2926317157WikidataQ126543783 ScholiaQ126543783MaRDI QIDQ2187299FDOQ2187299

Authors: Colin McSwiggen, Robert Coquereaux, Jean-Bernard Zuber 

Publication date: 2 June 2020

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider an extended version of Horn's problem: given two orbits $mathcal{O}_{a}lpha$ and $$ of a linear representation of a compact Lie group, let $Ainmathcal{O}_{a}lpha$, $$ be independent and invariantly distributed random elements of the two orbits. The problem is to describe the probability distribution of the orbit of the sum $A+B$. We study in particular the familiar case of coadjoint orbits, and also the orbits of self-adjoint real, complex and quaternionic matrices under the conjugation actions of $mathrmSO(n)$, $mathrmSU(n)$ and $mathrmUSp(n)$ respectively. The probability density can be expressed in terms of a function that we call the volume function. In this paper, (i) we relate this function to the symplectic or Riemannian geometry of the orbits, depending on the case; (ii) we discuss its non-analyticities and possible vanishing; (iii) in the coadjoint case, we study its relation to tensor product multiplicities (generalized Littlewood--Richardson coefficients) and show that it computes the volume of a family of convex polytopes introduced by Berenstein and Zelevinsky. These considerations are illustrated by a detailed study of the volume function for the coadjoint orbits of $B_2=mathfrakso(5)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00752

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors (15A42) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46)

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