The corrected saturation conjecture for semisimple Lie groups

Let GG be a connected complex semisimple Lie group with maximal torus TT. Let (λ,μ,ν)(\lambda,\mu,\nu) be a triple of dominant weights for GG, and let NN be a positive number such that

(VNλVNμVNν)G>0.\left(V_{N\lambda}\otimes V_{N\mu}\otimes V_{N\nu}\right)^G>0.

Saturation conjecture for semisimple Lie groups. If λ+μ+ν\lambda+\mu+\nu annihilates all elements of TT with semisimple centralizer, then

(VλVμVν)G>0.\left(V_{\lambda}\otimes V_{\mu}\otimes V_{\nu}\right)^G>0.

The preceding naive saturation statement for arbitrary semisimple groups is explicitly reported to be false, while this corrected formulation is posed as the appropriate conjecture. The source does not state a resolution, so its status remains open here.

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Allen Knutson and Terence Tao, “The honeycomb model of GL(n) tensor products I: proof of the saturation conjecture”, arXiv:math/9807160 (1999).

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