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Standard posets and integral weight bases for symmetric powers of minuscule representations

Combinatorics 2025-06-17 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

This paper extends our earlier work where we constructed ``minuscule'' representations of Kac--Moody algebras from colored posets in a way that maintains key properties of the well-known minuscule representations of simple Lie algebras. In this paper we work only with finite posets. We define standard posets here as ones that can be used to construct weight bases of mthm^\text{th} symmetric powers (m1m \ge 1) of these minuscule Kac--Moody representations over the integers in a certain fashion. Our main result is to show that our ``Γ\Gamma-colored dd-complete'' and ``Γ\Gamma-colored minuscule'' posets are standard. When the algebra at hand is a simply laced simple Lie algebra and the representation minuscule in the classic sense (i.e. isomorphic to irreducible V(λ)V(\lambda) for minuscule highest weight λ\lambda), our result produces a concrete combinatorially described weight basis for the irreducible representation V(mλ)V(m\lambda) that is indexed in a natural fashion by mm-multichains in the weight lattice for V(λ)V(\lambda). C.S. Seshadri first showed such an indexing of a basis is possible. Our work here is entirely combinatorial and does not use results or techniques from algebraic geometry. Constructions in this paper are independent of Lie type and actions of Kac--Moody algebra elements on basis vectors are effectively specified.

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@article{arxiv.2506.13572,
  title  = {Standard posets and integral weight bases for symmetric powers of minuscule representations},
  author = {Michael C. Strayer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13572},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages, 2 figures