Typical representations via fixed point sets in Bruhat–Tits buildings

For a tame supercuspidal representation π \pi of a connected reductive p p -adic group G G , we establish two distinct and complementary sufficient conditions, formulated in terms of the geometry of the Bruhat–Tits building of G G , for the irreducible components of its restriction to a maximal compact subgroup to occur in a representation of G G which is not inertially equivalent to π \pi . The consequence is a set of broadly applicable tools for addressing the branching rules of π \pi and the unicity of [ G , π ] G [G,\pi ]_G -types.

AdS3/AdS2 degression of massless particles

We study a 3d/2d dimensional degression which is a Kaluza-Klein type mechanism in AdS3 space foliated into AdS2 hypersurfaces. It is shown that an AdS3 massless particle of spin s = 1, 2, …, ∞ degresses into a couple of AdS2 particles of equal energies E = s. Note that the Kaluza-Klein spectra in higher dimensions are always infinite. To formulate the AdS3/AdS2 degression we consider branching rules for AdS3 isometry algebra o(2,2) representations decomposed with respect to AdS2 isometry algebra o(1,2). We find that a given o(2,2) higher-spin representation lying on the unitary bound (i.e. massless) decomposes into two equal o(1,2) modules. In the field-theoretical terms, this phenomenon is demonstrated for spin-2 and spin-3 free massless fields. The truncation to a finite spectrum can be seen by using particular mode expansions, (partial) diagonalizations, and identities specific to two dimensions.

Branching rules and commuting probabilities for Triangular and Unitriangular matrices

This paper concerns the enumeration of simultaneous conjugacy classes of [Formula: see text]-tuples of commuting matrices in the upper triangular group [Formula: see text] and unitriangular group [Formula: see text] over the finite field [Formula: see text] of odd characteristic. This is done for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], by computing the branching rules. Further, using the branching matrix thus computed, we explicitly get the commuting probabilities [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] in each case.

The action of Young subgroups on the partition complex

We study the restrictions, the strict fixed points, and the strict quotients of the partition complex $|\Pi_{n}|$ | Π n | , which is the $\Sigma_{n}$ Σ n -space attached to the poset of proper nontrivial partitions of the set $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ { 1 , … , n } .We express the space of fixed points $|\Pi_{n}|^{G}$ | Π n | G in terms of subgroup posets for general $G\subset \Sigma_{n}$ G ⊂ Σ n and prove a formula for the restriction of $|\Pi_{n}|$ | Π n | to Young subgroups $\Sigma_{n_{1}}\times \cdots\times \Sigma_{n_{k}}$ Σ n 1 × ⋯ × Σ n k . Both results follow by applying a general method, proven with discrete Morse theory, for producing equivariant branching rules on lattices with group actions.We uncover surprising links between strict Young quotients of $|\Pi_{n}|$ | Π n | , commutative monoid spaces, and the cotangent fibre in derived algebraic geometry. These connections allow us to construct a cofibre sequence relating various strict quotients $|\Pi_{n}|^{\diamond} \mathbin {\operatorname* {\wedge }_{\Sigma_{n}}^{}} (S^{\ell})^{\wedge n}$ | Π n | ⋄ ∧ Σ n ( S ℓ ) ∧ n and give a combinatorial proof of a splitting in derived algebraic geometry.Combining all our results, we decompose strict Young quotients of $|\Pi_{n}|$ | Π n | in terms of “atoms” $|\Pi_{d}|^{\diamond} \mathbin {\operatorname* {\wedge }_{\Sigma_{d}}^{}} (S^{\ell})^{\wedge d}$ | Π d | ⋄ ∧ Σ d ( S ℓ ) ∧ d for $\ell$ ℓ odd and compute their homology. We thereby also generalise Goerss’ computation of the algebraic André-Quillen homology of trivial square-zero extensions from $\mathbf {F}_{2}$ F 2 to $\mathbf {F}_{p}$ F p for $p$ p an odd prime.

On a conjecture of Naito-Sagaki: Littelmann paths and Littlewood-Richardson Sundaram tableaux

In recent work with Schumann we have proven a conjecture of Naito-Sagaki giving a branching rule for the decomposition of the restriction of an irreducible representation of the special linear Lie algebra to the symplectic Lie algebra, therein embedded as the fixed-point set of the involution obtained by the folding of the corresponding Dyinkin diagram. It provides a new approach to branching rules for non-Levi subalgebras in terms of Littelmann paths. In this paper we motivate this result, provide examples, and give an overview of the combinatorics involved in its proof.

An Elliptic Hypergeometric Function Approach to Branching Rules

We prove Macdonald-type deformations of a number of well-known classical branching rules by employing identities for elliptic hypergeometric integrals and series. We also propose some conjectural branching rules and allied conjectures exhibiting a novel type of vanishing behaviour involving partitions with empty 2-cores.

Nested Polyhedra and Indices of Orbits of Coxeter Groups of Non-Crystallographic Type

The invariants of finite-dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras, such as even-degree indices and anomaly numbers, are considered in the context of the non-crystallographic finite reflection groups H2, H3 and H4. Using a representation-orbit replacement, the definitions and properties of the indices are formulated for individual orbits of the examined groups. The indices of orders two and four of the tensor product of k orbits are determined. Using the branching rules for the non-crystallographic Coxeter groups, the embedding index is defined similarly to the Dynkin index of a representation. Moreover, since the definition of the indices can be applied to any orbit of non-crystallographic type, the algorithm allowing to search for the orbits of smaller radii contained within any considered one is presented for the Coxeter groups H2 and H3. The geometrical structures of nested polytopes are exemplified.

Algebraic DVR Approaches Applied to Describe the Stark Effect

Two algebraic approaches based on a discrete variable representation are introduced and applied to describe the Stark effect in the non-relativistic Hydrogen atom. One approach consists of considering an algebraic representation of a cutoff 3D harmonic oscillator where the matrix representation of the operators r2 and p2 are diagonalized to define useful bases to obtain the matrix representation of the Hamiltonian in a simple form in terms of diagonal matrices. The second approach is based on the U(4) dynamical algebra which consists of the addition of a scalar boson to the 3D harmonic oscillator space keeping constant the total number of bosons. This allows the kets associated with the different subgroup chains to be linked to energy, coordinate and momentum representations, whose involved branching rules define the discrete variable representation. Both methods, although originating from the harmonic oscillator basis, provide different convergence tests due to the fact that the associated discrete bases turn out to be different. These approaches provide powerful tools to obtain the matrix representation of 3D general Hamiltonians in a simple form. In particular, the Hydrogen atom interacting with a static electric field is described. To accomplish this task, the diagonalization of the exact matrix representation of the Hamiltonian is carried out. Particular attention is paid to the subspaces associated with the quantum numbers n=2,3 with m=0.