Multiplicity-free Representations of Algebraic Groups

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1466arXiv2101.04476OpenAlexW3119192576MaRDI QIDQ6204947FDOQ6204947

Authors: Martin W. Liebeck, Gary M. Seitz, Donna M. Testerman 

Publication date: 10 April 2024

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group over $K$. We address the problem of classifying triples $(G,H,V)$, where $H$ is a proper connected subgroup of $G$, and $V$ is a finite-dimensional irreducible $G$-module such that the restriction of $V$ to $H$ is multiplicity-free -- that is, each of its composition factors appears with multiplicity 1. A great deal of classical work, going back to Weyl, Dynkin, Howe, Stembridge and others, and also more recent work of the authors, can be set in this context. In this paper we determine all such triples in the case where $H$ and $G$ are both simple algebraic groups of type $A$, and $H$ is embedded irreducibly in $G$. While there are a number of interesting familes of such triples $(G,H,V)$, the possibilities for the highest weights of the representations defining the embeddings $H<G$ and $G<GL(V)$ are very restricted. For example, apart from two exceptional cases, both weights can only have support on at most two fundamental weights; and in many of the examples, one or other of the weights corresponds to the alternating or symmetric square of the natural module for either $G$ or $H$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04476

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupmultiplicity-free representationrepresentation theoryirreducible subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory (20-02)

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