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Given a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, Kostant's weight $q$-multiplicity formula is an alternating sum over the Weyl group whose terms involve the $q$-analog of Kostant's partition function. For $\xi$ (a weight of $\mathfrak{g}$), the…

The multiplicity of a weight in a finite-dimensional irreducible representation of a simple Lie algebra g can be computed via Kostant's weight multiplicity formula. This formula consists of an alternating sum over the Weyl group (a finite…

In combinatorial representation theory, Kostant's weight multiplicity formula $m(\lambda,\mu)$ is a tool that provides a means of determining the multiplicity of a weight $\mu$ in the adjoint representation of a simple Lie algebra…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Matt McClinton

Kostant's weight $q$-multiplicity formula is an alternating sum over a finite group known as the Weyl group, whose terms involve the $q$-analog of Kostant's partition function. The $q$-analog of the partition function is a polynomial-valued…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Pamela E. Harris , Peter Hollander , Daniel C. Qin , Maria Rodriguez-Hertz

The $q$-analog of Kostant's weight multiplicity formula is an alternating sum over a finite group, known as the Weyl group, whose terms involve the $q$-analog of Kostant's partition function. This formula, when evaluated at $q=1$, gives the…

In most applications of semi-simple Lie groups and algebras representation theory, calculating weight multiplicities is one of the most often used and effort consuming operations. The existing tools were created many years ago by Kostant…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Anatoli Loutsiouk

Consider the weight $\lambda$ which is the sum of all simple roots of a simple Lie algebra. Using Kostant's weight multiplicity formula we describe and enumerate the contributing terms to the multiplicity of the zero weight in the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Kevin Chang , Pamela Harris , Erik Insko

Berenshtein and Zelevinskii provided an exhaustive list of pairs of weights $(\lambda,\mu)$ of simple Lie algebras $\mathfrak{g}$ (up to Dynkin diagram isomorphism) for which the multiplicity of the weight $\mu$ in the representation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Pamela E. Harris , Margaret Rahmoeller , Lisa Schneider , Anthony Simpson

A bivariate representation of a complex simple Lie algebra is an irreducible representation having highest weight a combination of the first two fundamental weights. For a complex classical Lie algebra, we establish an expression for the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Emilio A. Lauret , Fiorela Rossi Bertone

Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a semisimple Lie algebra over $\mathbb{C}$ having rank $l$ and let $V=L(\lambda)$ be an irreducible finite-dimensional $\mathfrak{g}$-module having highest weight $\lambda.$ Computations of weight multiplicities in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-06 Mikaël Cavallin

For integral weights $\lambda$ and $\mu$ of a classical simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, Kostant's weight multiplicity formula gives the multiplicity of the weight $\mu$ in the irreducible representation with highest weight $\lambda$,…

Kostant's partition function counts the number of ways to represent a particular vector (weight) as a nonnegative integral sum of positive roots of a Lie algebra. For a given weight the $q$-analog of Kostant's partition function is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-21 Pamela E. Harris , Erik Insko , Mohamed Omar

It is shown that there are infinitely many formulas to calculate multiplicities of weights participating in irreducible representations of $A_N$ Lie algebras. On contrary to recursive character of Kostant and Freudenthal multiplicity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 H. R. Karadayi

By bivariate irreducible representations of ${\rm Sp}(2r)$, we mean irreducible representations with highest weights containing at most two nonzero entries, using the usual identification of dominant weights for complex symplectic Lie…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Julia Maddox

For a simple Lie algebra, over $\mathbb{C}$, we consider the weight which is the sum of all simple roots and denote it $\tilde{\alpha}$. We formally use Kostant's weight multiplicity formula to compute the "dimension" of the zero-weight…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Pamela Harris , Erik Insko

Kostant's partition function counts the number of distinct ways to express a weight of a classical Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ as a sum of positive roots of $\mathfrak{g}$. We refer to each of these expressions as decompositions of a weight.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Pamela E. Harris , Margaret Rahmoeller , Lisa Schneider

Even though weight multiplicity formulas, such as Kostant's formula, exist their computational use is extremely cumbersome. In fact, even in cases when the multiplicity is well understood, the number of terms considered in Kostant's formula…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Pamela E. Harris , Erik Insko , Lauren Kelly Williams

Let $G$ be a compact semisimple Lie group and $T$ be a maximal torus of $G$. We describe a method for weight multiplicity computation in unitary irreducible representations of $G$, based on the theory of Berezin quantization on $G/T$. Let…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 David Bar-Moshe

We call the \emph{$p$-fundamental string} of a complex simple Lie algebra to the sequence of irreducible representations having highest weights of the form $k\omega_1+\omega_p$ for $k\geq0$, where $\omega_j$ denotes the $j$-th fundamental…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Emilio A. Lauret , Fiorela Rossi Bertone

Kostka-Foulkes polynomials are Lusztig's $q$-analogues of weight multiplicities for irreducible representations of semisimple Lie algebras. It has long been known that these polynomials have non-negative coefficients. A statistic on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Cédric Lecouvey , Cristian Lenart , Adam Schultze
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