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Bidilatation of Small Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients

Algebraic Geometry 2022-06-08 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

The Littlewood-Richardson coefficients cλ,μνc^\nu_{\lambda,\mu} are the multiplicities in the tensor product decomposition of two irreducible representations of the general linear group GL(n,C)(n, {\mathbb C}). They are parametrized by the triples of partitions (λ,μ,ν)(\lambda, \mu, \nu) of length at most nn. By the so-called Fulton conjecture, if cλ,μν=1c^\nu_{\lambda,\mu}=1 then ckλ,kμkν=1c^{k\nu}_{k\lambda,k\mu}= 1, for any k0k \geq 0. Similarly, as proved by Ikenmeyer or Sherman, if cλ,μν=2c^\nu_{\lambda,\mu}=2 then ckλ,kμkν=k+1c^{k\nu}_{k\lambda,k\mu} = k + 1, for any k0k\geq 0. Here, given a partition λ\lambda, we set λ(p,q)=p(qλ)\lambda(p, q) = p(q\lambda')' , where prime denotes the conjugate partition. We observe that Fulton's conjecture implies that if cλ,μν=1c^\nu_{\lambda,\mu}=1 then cλ(p,q),μ(p,q)ν(p,q)=1c^{\nu(p,q)}_{\lambda(p,q),\mu(p,q)}=1, for any p,q0p, q \geq 0. Our main result is that if cλ,μν=2c^\nu_{\lambda,\mu}=2 then cλ(p,q),μ(p,q)ν(p,q)c^{\nu(p,q)}_{\lambda(p,q),\mu(p,q)} is the binomial (p+qq)\begin{pmatrix} p+q\\ q \end{pmatrix}, for any p,q0p, q \geq 0.

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@article{arxiv.2206.03054,
  title  = {Bidilatation of Small Littlewood-Richardson Coefficients},
  author = {Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput and Nicolas Ressayre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03054},
  year   = {2022}
}