The Weyl character formula, the half-spin representations, and equal rank subgroups

DOI10.1073/PNAS.95.15.8441MaRDI QIDQ3838486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benedict H. Gross, Bertram Kostant, Pierre Ramond, Shlomo Sternberg

Publication date 13 August 1998

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9808133

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationssemisimple Lie algebraWeyl groupWeyl character formulareductive Lie subalgebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

Abstract: Let B be a reductive Lie subalgebra of a semi-simple Lie algebra of the same rank both over the complex numbers. To each finite dimensional irreducible representation $V_{l}ambda$ of F we assign a multiplet of irreducible representations of B with m elements in each multiplet, where m is the index of the Weyl group of B in the Weyl group of F. We obtain a generalization of the Weyl character formula; our formula gives the character of $V_{l}ambda$ as a quotient whose numerator is an alternating sum of the characters in the multiplet associated to $V_{l}ambda$ and whose denominator is an alternating sum of the characters of the multiplet associated to the trivial representation of F.

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