English

Extremal rays of the embedded subgroup saturation cone

Algebraic Geometry 2021-02-09 v4 Representation Theory

Abstract

We examine the extremal rays of the cone of dominant weights (μ,μ^)(\mu, \widehat\mu) for groups GG^G\subseteq \widehat G for which there exists N0N \gg0 such that (V(Nμ)V(Nμ^))G(0). \left(V(N\mu)\otimes V(N\widehat \mu)\right)^G\ne (0). We exhibit formulas for a class of rays ("type I") on any regular face of the cone. These rays are identified thanks to a generalization of Fulton's conjecture, which we prove along the way. We verify that the remaining rays ("type II") on the face are the images of extremal rays for a smaller cone under a certain map, whose formula is given. A procedure is given for finding the rays of the cone not on any regular face. This is a generalization of the work of Belkale and Kiers on extremal rays for the saturated tensor cone; the specialization is given by G^=G×G\widehat G = G\times G with the diagonal embedding of GG. We include several examples to illustrate the formulas.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1909.09262,
  title  = {Extremal rays of the embedded subgroup saturation cone},
  author = {Joshua Kiers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09262},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

50 pages, substantial edits to accommodate $G$ reductive instead of semisimple, new examples. To appear in Annales de l'Institut Fourier

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