scientific article; zbMATH DE number 16050

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0716.00007.] It is pointed out that labelling irreducible representations of both classical and exceptional Lie groups by means of partitions and using \(S\)-functions allows applications of the Littlewood-Richardson rule to be extended far beyond its original symmetric group context [\textit{D. E. Littlewood} and \textit{A. R. Richardson}, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 233, 99-141 (1934; Zbl 0009.20203)]. Its implementation in SCHUR [SCHUR Software Associates, Christchurch, New Zealand] leads to the efficient interactive evaluation of a large variety of such things as tensor products and branching rules for Lie groups. Applications to atomic, nuclear and particle physics are mentioned, and a few illustrative examples involving infinite series of \(S\)-functions, skew \(S\)-functions, plethysms and user defined functions are given.

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