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Omitting the rho shift breaks Kostant's formula
Statement refuted
False claim. In Kostant's weight multiplicity formula the second shift can be omitted, that is, the multiplicity of as a weight of equals as well.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice, with positive root , fundamental weight , Weyl group , Weyl vector , the weight , the weight , and the Kostant partition function .
The Axiom of Choice is assumed; it enters through the Kostant formula used in the counterexample (The Axiom of Choice).
For the positive root satisfies and , so and (Finite Weyl root system, lattice and chamber conventions, Fundamental weights, The Weyl vector rho for a chosen positive system).
is the irreducible three-dimensional -module whose weights are , each with multiplicity one (Finite-dimensional representations of sl_2, Integral, dominant, and strictly dominant weights).
counts the families with , so , while because and are not nonnegative integral multiples of the simple root ; the multiplicity formula of the Statement is (The Kostant partition function, Kostant's weight multiplicity formula).
Counterexample
The correct formula of [F3] gives , in agreement with the weight string of [F2].
The modified expression omitting the shift gives , because and are not nonnegative integral multiples of .
Steps 1.1 and 1.2 exhibit a weight, namely in , whose true multiplicity is while the modified formula returns ; hence the modified formula is false, and the shift inside the partition argument is not a convention that can be dropped.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Choice
- The Kostant partition function
- Kostant's weight multiplicity formula
- Integral, dominant, and strictly dominant weights
- Finite-dimensional representations of sl_2
- Fundamental weights
- Finite Weyl root system, lattice and chamber conventions
- The Weyl vector rho for a chosen positive system
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Sources
- P. Etingof, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras II (MIT 18.755, Spring 2024), complete lectures (standard reference, not scraped)
- B. Weber, Weyl Character Formula II: Formulas of Weyl and Kostant (Penn Math 651, March 2013) (standard reference, not scraped)