Applying the Clebsch-Gordan decomposition for SU2 givesandOn the summand , interchange of the two tensor factors acts by ; this is the flip parity in the SU2 tensor square. The even- summands make the symmetric square, so
Repeatedly using shows that the multiplicity of in the nth tensor power satisfies Pascal's recursion. Consequentlywhere . The multiplicity is the difference between the numbers of weight vectors of weights and .
The weights of are . Degree-three monomials in these weights show that the character of the symmetric power has weightsCharacters determine finite-dimensional representations, hence
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