Kostant's tensor-product conjecture for the Weyl vector

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Let g\mathfrak{g} be a complex semisimple Lie algebra with weight lattice notation P+P^+, and let ρ\rho be the half-sum of its positive roots. For a dominant integral weight λP+\lambda\in P^+, write λ2ρ\lambda\leq 2\rho for the dominance order, and let V(λ)V(\lambda) denote the irreducible highest weight representation of highest weight λ\lambda. Kostant's conjecture. If λ2ρ\lambda\leq 2\rho, then

V(λ)V(ρ)V(ρ).V(\lambda)\subseteq V(\rho)\otimes V(\rho).

The conjecture asserts that every dominant highest weight allowed by the dominance bound occurs in the tensor product. It is known for type AA and up to a saturation factor in general; it has also been checked for exceptional types, but remains open for the other classical simple Lie algebras.

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Primary source

Rekha Biswal and Sam Jeralds, “Components of V(mρ) V(nρ)”, arXiv:2605.29802 (2026).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2404.10266, arXiv:2312.12756, arXiv:2309.04753, arXiv:2309.06890, arXiv:2210.05473.

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