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Invariant tensors and the cyclic sieving phenomenon

Representation Theory 2017-05-15 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We construct a large class of examples of the cyclic sieving phenomenon by expoiting the representation theory of semi-simple Lie algebras. Let MM be a finite dimensional representation of a semi-simple Lie algebra and let BB be the associated Kashiwara crystal. For r0r\ge 0, the triple (X,c,P)(X,c,P) which exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon is constructed as follows: the set XX is the set of isolated vertices in the crystal rB\otimes^rB; the map c ⁣:XXc\colon X\rightarrow X is a generalisation of promotion acting on standard tableaux of rectangular shape and the polynomial PP is the fake degree of the Frobenius character of a representation of Sr\mathfrak{S}_r related to the natural action of Sr\mathfrak{S}_r on the subspace of invariant tensors in rM\otimes^rM. Taking MM to be the defining representation of SL(n)\mathrm{SL}(n) gives the cyclic sieving phenomenon for rectangular tableaux.

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@article{arxiv.0912.1512,
  title  = {Invariant tensors and the cyclic sieving phenomenon},
  author = {Bruce W. Westbury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1512},
  year   = {2017}
}