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Kostka numbers and tensor product coefficients in A_r via polytopes.
Algebra & Discrete Mathematics| Speaker: | Charles Cochet, Universit{\'e} Paris 7, France |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Fri, Jan 9 2004, 12:10PM |
Description
We apply some recent developments of Baldoni-Vergne and
Baldoni-DeLoera-Vergne on vector partition functions, to
Kostant's and Steinberg's formulas, in the case of the
Lie algebra $A_r$.
We therefore get a fast {\sc Maple} program that computes
for $A_r$: the Kostka number, that is the multiplicity of
a weight in a finite-dimensional irreducible representation;
the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, that is the
coefficients of the decomposition of the tensor product of
two finite-dimensional irreducible representations.