Solution

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Take a basis of the defining representation of the sl2 Lie algebra, with , , , , and . A monomial basis of the symmetric power is
For the exterior power , put for . These ten elements form a basis, and their weights of a representation add:
Thus the complete weight-space decomposition, with explicit bases, is
The weight diagram therefore has multiplicities at weights , respectively.
Figure 1.
Weights and multiplicities of the exterior square of Sym4 C2
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