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Generalized Littlewood–Richardson coefficients for branching rules of GL(n) and extremal weight crystals
Collins, Brett1
1 Bucknell University Mathematics Department One Dent Dr. Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 3 (2020) no. 6, pp. 1365-1400.

Following the methods used by Derksen–Weyman in [] and Chindris in [], we use quiver theory to represent the generalized Littlewood–Richardson coefficients for the branching rule for the diagonal embedding of GL(n) as the dimension of a weight space of semi-invariants. Using this, we prove their saturation and investigate when they are nonzero. We also show that for certain partitions the associated stretched polynomials satisfy the same conjectures as single Littlewood–Richardson coefficients. We then provide a polytopal description of this multiplicity and show that its positivity may be computed in strongly polynomial time. Finally, we remark that similar results hold for certain other generalized Littlewood–Richardson coefficients.

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DOI: 10.5802/alco.143
Classification: 16G20, 05E15
Keywords: Quiver representations, semi-invariants, Littlewood–Richardson coefficients, Horn’s Conjecture, branching rule, hive model.

Collins, Brett 1

1 Bucknell University Mathematics Department One Dent Dr. Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA
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Collins, Brett. Generalized Littlewood–Richardson coefficients for branching rules of GL$(n)$ and extremal weight crystals. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 3 (2020) no. 6, pp. 1365-1400. doi : 10.5802/alco.143. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/alco.143/

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