Character factorizations for representations of GL(n,C)
Representation Theory
2026-04-07 v3 Group Theory
Abstract
We give another proof of a theorem of D. Prasad (Theorem 2, \textit{Israel J. Math.} 2016), which is also a classical result of Littlewood--Richardson (Theorem VI, \textit{Q. J. Math.} 1934). For integers , this result calculates the character of an irreducible representation of at diagonal elements with eigenvalues for , , where , expressing it as a product of certain characters for evaluated at . Unlike previous approaches that rely on determinantal identities, our proof utilizes a direct combinatorial cancellation argument within the Weyl group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.03544,
title = {Character factorizations for representations of GL(n,C)},
author = {Chayan Karmakar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03544},
year = {2026}
}