English

Newell-Littlewood numbers

Combinatorics 2021-09-07 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

The Newell-Littlewood numbers are defined in terms of their celebrated cousins, the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients. Both arise as tensor product multiplicities for a classical Lie group. They are the structure coefficients of the K. Koike-I. Terada basis of the ring of symmetric functions. Recent work of H. Hahn studies them, motivated by R. Langlands' beyond endoscopy proposal; we address her work with a simple characterization of detection of Weyl modules. This motivates further study of the combinatorics of the numbers. We consider analogues of ideas of J. De Loera-T. McAllister, H. Derksen-J. Weyman, S. Fomin-W. Fulton-C.-K. Li-Y.-T. Poon, W. Fulton, R. King-C. Tollu-F. Toumazet, M. Kleber, A. Klyachko, A. Knutson-T. Tao, T. Lam-A. Postnikov-P. Pylyavskyy, K. Mulmuley-H. Narayanan-M. Sohoni, H. Narayanan, A. Okounkov, J. Stembridge, and H. Weyl.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.09012,
  title  = {Newell-Littlewood numbers},
  author = {Shiliang Gao and Gidon Orelowitz and Alexander Yong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09012},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

35 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-23T15:38:27.507Z