Solution

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The weight diagram has weights with multiplicities . An Irreducible Lie algebra representation of the sl2 Lie algebra with highest weight has weights , all of multiplicity one. The top weight therefore forces one summand. Subtracting its formal character leaves weights , each once, which is . By Weyl complete reducibility theorem,
Their dimensions account for the entire module.
Figure 1.
The exterior-square weight diagram and its two irreducible summands; basis labels are defined in part iii
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