2021/01/12 by Martin W. Liebeck, Gary M. Seitz, Liebeck, Martin W. +3
Mathematics · #20G05 #20G20 #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #FOS: Mathematics #Finite Group Theory Research #Group Theory (math.GR) #Representation Theory (math.RT)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.04476
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Let K be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over K. We address the problem of classifying triples (G,H,V), where H is a proper connected subgroup of G, and V is a finite-dimensional irreducible G-module such that the restriction of V to H is multiplicity-free -- that is, each of its composition factors appears with multiplicity 1. A great deal of classical work, going back to Weyl, Dynkin, Howe, Stembridge and others, and also more recent work of the authors, can be set in this context. In this paper we determine all such triples in the case where H and G are both simple algebraic groups of type A, and H is embedded irreducibly in G. While there are a number of interesting familes of such triples (G,H,V), the possibilities for the highest weights of the representations defining the embeddings H