Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 1 1 a ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Write for the irreducible representation of with highest weight , dimension and weights . The weight diagram below records multiplicities at weights .
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 . HenceThe 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.
