Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for reflection groups
Abstract
In this paper we explicitly compute all Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for semisimple or Kac-Moody groups G, that is, the structure coefficients of the cohomology algebra H^*(G/P), where P is a parabolic subgroup of G. These coefficients are of importance in enumerative geometry, algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. Our formula for the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients is given in terms of the Cartan matrix and the Weyl group of G. However, if some off-diagonal entries of the Cartan matrix are 0 or -1, the formula may contain negative summands. On the other hand, if the Cartan matrix satisfies for all , then each summand in our formula is nonnegative that implies nonnegativity of all Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. We extend this and other results to the structure coefficients of the T-equivariant cohomology of flag varieties G/P and Bott-Samelson varieties Gamma_\ii(G).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.1714,
title = {Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for reflection groups},
author = {Arkady Berenstein and Edward Richmond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1714},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
51 pages, AMSLaTeX, typos corrected