Structure of the tensor product semigroup

DOI10.4310/AJM.2006.V10.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ863780zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Kapovich, John Millson

Publication date 1 February 2007

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508186

zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationLie groupsemigrouptensor product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46)

Abstract: We study structure of the semigroup Tens(G) consisting of triples of dominant weights (lambda,mu, u) of a complex reductive Lie group G such that the triple tensor product of the corresponding irreducible representations of G has a nonzero G-invariant vector. We prove two general structural results for Tens(G) and give an explicit computation of Tens(G) for G=Sp(4,C) and G=G_2.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a complex reductive Lie group. Then finite-dimensional irreducible representations of \(G\) are parameterized by their highest weights, \(\lambda\mapsto V_{\lambda}\). The authors consider the set \[ Tens(G)=\{(\lambda,\mu,\nu)\mid (V_{\lambda}\otimes V_{\mu}\otimes V_{\nu})^G \neq 0\}. \] This set forms a semigroup with respect to addition. In the paper under review the authors prove several structural results about \(Tens(G)\) and compute \(Tens(Sp(4,\mathbb{C}))\) and \(Tens(G_2)\). One of their main results is the following Theorem: For each complex reductive Lie group \(G\) the set \(Tens(G)\) is a finite union of elementary subsets of \(L^3\), where \(L\) is the character lattice of a maximal (split) torus in \(G\).

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