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Hive-type polytopes for quiver multiplicities and the membership problem for quiver moment cones

Combinatorics 2024-09-17 v3 Computational Complexity Representation Theory

Abstract

Let QQ be a bipartite quiver with vertex set Q0Q_0 such that the number of arrows between any source vertex and any sink vertex is constant. Let β=(β(x))xQ0\beta=(\beta(x))_{x \in Q_0} be a dimension vector of QQ with positive integer coordinates. Let rep(Q,β)rep(Q, \beta) be the representation space of β\beta-dimensional representations of QQ and GL(β)GL(\beta) the base change group acting on rep(Q,β)rep(Q, \beta) be simultaneous conjugation. Let KλβK^{\beta}_{\underline{\lambda}} be the multiplicity of the irreducible representation of GL(β)GL(\beta) of highest weight λ\underline{\lambda} in the ring of polynomial functions on rep(Q,β)rep(Q, \beta). We show that KλβK^{\beta}_{\underline{\lambda}} can be expressed as the number of lattice points of a polytope obtained by gluing together two Knutson-Tao hive polytopes. Furthermore, this polytopal description together with Derksen-Weyman's Saturation Theorem for quiver semi-invariants allows us to use Tardos' algorithm to solve the membership problem for the moment cone associated to (Q,β)(Q,\beta) in strongly polynomial time.

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@article{arxiv.2211.01990,
  title  = {Hive-type polytopes for quiver multiplicities and the membership problem for quiver moment cones},
  author = {Calin Chindris and Brett Collins and Daniel Kline},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01990},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: Fixed the claim about the generic quiver semi-stability problem (see Remarks 2.8 and 5.5); v3: Final version to appear in Algebraic Combinatorics. The focus is on polytopal descriptions of multiplicities of irreducible representations of $GL(\beta)$ in the ring of polynomial functions on $rep(Q, \beta)$