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Demazure formula for $A_n$ Weyl polytope sums

Representation Theory 2021-10-27 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The weights of finite-dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras are naturally associated with Weyl polytopes. Representation characters decompose into multiplicity-free sums over the weights in Weyl polytopes. The Brion formula for these Weyl polytope sums is remarkably similar to the Weyl character formula. Moreover, the same Lie characters are also expressible as Demazure character formulas. This motivates a search for new expressions for Weyl polytope sums, and we prove such a formula involving Demazure operators. It applies to the Weyl polytope sums of the simple Lie algebras AnA_n, for all dominant integrable highest weights and all ranks nn.

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@article{arxiv.2109.13314,
  title  = {Demazure formula for $A_n$ Weyl polytope sums},
  author = {Jørgen Rasmussen and Mark A. Walton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13314},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages

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