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 λ∈P+\lambda\in P^+, write λ≤2ρ\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 λ≤2ρ\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.

References

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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