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The base affine space and canonical basis in irreducible representations of the group \(Sp_ 4\). (English. Russian original) Zbl 0672.22013

Sov. Math., Dokl. 37, No. 3, 618-622 (1988); translation from Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR 300, No. 1, 31-35 (1988).
The purpose of this paper is to construct certain canonical bases in irreducible finite dimensional representations of \(G=Sp(4,{\mathbb{C}})\). Let \(N_-\) be a unipotent radical of G, \(A=N_-\setminus G\) the affine base space of G, and \({\mathbb{C}}[A]\) its coordinate ring. Each irreducible G- module appears in the decomposition of \({\mathbb{C}}[A]\) precisely once. The vectors in the canonical bases are certain highly symmetric monomials on A. This result is an extension to the case of \(G=Sp(4,{\mathbb{C}})\) of results of I. M. Gel’fand and the first author on existence of canonical bases for \(Gl_ n\) [see in particular Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 19, No.2, 72-75 (1985; Zbl 0606.17006)]. As the authors show in the last section, the existence of canonical bases sheds a light on the problem of decomposition of a tensor product of two irreducible G-modules into a direct sum of irreducible modules.
Reviewer: H.Hecht

MSC:

22E46 Semisimple Lie groups and their representations

Citations:

Zbl 0606.17006