Solution

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Write for the irreducible representation of with highest weight , dimension and weights . The weight diagram below records multiplicities at weights .
Figure 1.
Weights and irreducible summands of the defining sl2 module tensor its cubic symmetric power
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The unique top weight four forces one copy of , by complete reducibility of semisimple Lie algebra representations. Removing its five weights, each with multiplicity one, leaves weights with multiplicity one, exactly the character of . Hence
The two lower rows draw their separate weight diagrams. The explicit invariant copies constructed next establish the Clebsch-Gordan splitting of a defining module and its cubic symmetric power within itself.

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