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Asymptotics of Plethysm

Representation Theory 2025-09-09 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study multiplicities aμ,(dk)dλa^{d\lambda}_{\mu,(dk)} of highest weight representations Sdλ(Cn)\mathbb S_{d\lambda}(\mathbb C^n), λpk\lambda\vdash pk, of length at most pp, in Sμ(Sdk(Cn))\mathbb{S}_{\mu}(S^{dk}(\mathbb C^n)), μp\mu\vdash p, so called plethysm coefficients, as dd tends to \infty. These are given by quasi-polynomials, which in the case of Sp(Sdk(Cn))S^p(S^{dk}(\mathbb C^n)) can explicitly be computed by Pieri's rule. We show that for all but a finite, explicit list of λ\lambda's the leading term is in fact constant and that aμ,(dk)dλdimVμp!cp,dkdλ a^{d\lambda}_{\mu,(dk)}\sim \frac{\dim V_\mu}{p!}c^{d\lambda}_{p,dk} as dd\to\infty. In particular, we answer a conjecture of Kahle and Micha\l ek, going back to Howe.

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@article{arxiv.2509.06424,
  title  = {Asymptotics of Plethysm},
  author = {Tim Kuppel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06424},
  year   = {2025}
}

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