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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 m,n2m,n \ge 2, this result calculates the character of an irreducible representation of \GL(mn,\C)\GL(mn,\C) at diagonal elements with eigenvalues ωnj1ti\omega^{j-1}_nt_i for 1im1 \le i \le m, 1jn1 \le j \le n, where ωn=e2πı/n\omega_n=e^{2\pi \imath/n}, expressing it as a product of certain characters for \GL(m,\C)\GL(m,\C) evaluated at tn=diag(t1n,t2n,,tmn)\underline{t}^n={\rm diag}(t_1^{n},t_{2}^{n},\dots,t_{m}^{n}). Unlike previous approaches that rely on determinantal identities, our proof utilizes a direct combinatorial cancellation argument within the Weyl group.

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@article{arxiv.2210.03544,
  title  = {Character factorizations for representations of GL(n,C)},
  author = {Chayan Karmakar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03544},
  year   = {2026}
}
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