# Branching Rules¶

class sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.BranchingRule(R, S, f, name='default', intermediate_types=[], intermediate_names=[])

A class for branching rules.

Rtype()

In a branching rule R => S, returns the Cartan Type of the ambient group R.

EXAMPLES:

sage: branching_rule("A3","A2","levi").Rtype()
['A', 3]

Stype()

In a branching rule R => S, returns the Cartan Type of the subgroup S.

EXAMPLES:

sage: branching_rule("A3","A2","levi").Stype()
['A', 2]

branch(chi, style=None)

INPUT:

• chi – A character of the WeylCharacterRing with Cartan type self.Rtype().

Returns the branched character.

EXAMPLES:

sage: G2=WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: chi=G2(1,1); chi.degree()
64
sage: b=G2.maximal_subgroup("A2"); b
extended branching rule G2 => A2
sage: b.branch(chi)
A2(0,1) + A2(1,0) + A2(0,2) + 2*A2(1,1) + A2(2,0) + A2(1,2) + A2(2,1)
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots"); A2
The Weyl Character Ring of Type A2 with Integer Ring coefficients
sage: chi.branch(A2,rule=b)
A2(0,1) + A2(1,0) + A2(0,2) + 2*A2(1,1) + A2(2,0) + A2(1,2) + A2(2,1)

describe(verbose=False, debug=False, no_r=False)

Describes how extended roots restrict under self.

EXAMPLES:

sage: branching_rule("G2","A2","extended").describe()

3
O=<=O---O
1   2   0
G2~

root restrictions G2 => A2:

O---O
1   2
A2

0 => 2
2 => 1

For more detailed information use verbose=True


In this example, $$0$$ is the affine root, that is, the negative of the highest root, for $$"G2"$$. If $$i => j$$ is printed, this means that the i-th simple (or affine) root of the ambient group restricts to the j-th simple root of the subgroup. For reference the Dynkin diagrams are also printed. The extended Dynkin diagram of the ambient group is printed if the affine root restricts to a simple root. More information is printed if the parameter $$verbose$$ is true.

sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.branch_weyl_character(chi, R, S, rule='default')

A branching rule describes the restriction of representations from a Lie group or algebra $$G$$ to a subgroup $$H$$. See for example, R. C. King, Branching rules for classical Lie groups using tensor and spinor methods. J. Phys. A 8 (1975), 429-449, Howe, Tan and Willenbring, Stable branching rules for classical symmetric pairs, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 357 (2005), no. 4, 1601-1626, McKay and Patera, Tables of Dimensions, Indices and Branching Rules for Representations of Simple Lie Algebras (Marcel Dekker, 1981), and Fauser, Jarvis, King and Wybourne, New branching rules induced by plethysm. J. Phys. A 39 (2006), no. 11, 2611–2655. If $$H\subset G$$ we will write $$G\Rightarrow H$$ to denote the branching rule, which is a homomorphism of WeylCharacterRings.

INPUT:

• chi – a character of $$G$$
• R – the Weyl Character Ring of $$G$$
• S – the Weyl Character Ring of $$H$$
• rule – an element of the BranchingRule class or one (most usually) a keyword such as:
• "levi"
• "automorphic"
• "symmetric"
• "extended"
• "orthogonal_sum"
• "tensor"
• "triality"
• "miscellaneous"

The BranchingRule class is a wrapper for functions from the weight lattice of $$G$$ to the weight lattice of $$H$$. An instance of this class encodes an embedding of $$H$$ into $$G$$. The usual way to specify an embedding is to supply a keyword, which tells Sage to use one of the built-in rules. We will discuss these first.

To explain the predefined rules, we survey the most important branching rules. These may be classified into several cases, and once this is understood, the detailed classification can be read off from the Dynkin diagrams. Dynkin classified the maximal subgroups of Lie groups in Mat. Sbornik N.S. 30(72):349-462 (1952).

We will list give predefined rules that cover most cases where the branching rule is to a maximal subgroup. For convenience, we also give some branching rules to subgroups that are not maximal. For example, a Levi subgroup may or may not be maximal.

For example, there is a “levi” branching rule defined from $$SL(5)$$ (with Cartan type $$A_4$$) to $$SL(4)$$ (with Cartan type $$A_3$$), so we may compute the branching rule as follows:

EXAMPLES:

sage: A3=WeylCharacterRing("A3",style="coroots")
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: [A3(fw).branch(A2,rule="levi") for fw in A3.fundamental_weights()]
[A2(0,0) + A2(1,0), A2(0,1) + A2(1,0), A2(0,0) + A2(0,1)]


In this case the Levi branching rule is the default branching rule so we may omit the specification rule=”levi”.

If a subgroup is not maximal, you may specify a branching rule by finding a chain of intermediate subgroups. For this purpose, branching rules may be multiplied as in the following example.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A4=WeylCharacterRing("A4",style="coroots")
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: br=branching_rule("A4","A3")*branching_rule("A3","A2")
sage: A4(1,0,0,0).branch(A2,rule=br)
2*A2(0,0) + A2(1,0)


You may try omitting the rule if it is “obvious”. Default rules are provided for the following cases:

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} A_{2s} & \Rightarrow B_s, \\ A_{2s-1} & \Rightarrow C_s, \\ A_{2*s-1} & \Rightarrow D_s. \end{aligned}\end{split}

The above default rules correspond to embedding the group $$SO(2s+1)$$, $$Sp(2s)$$ or $$SO(2s)$$ into the corresponding general or special linear group by the standard representation. Default rules are also specified for the following cases:

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} B_{s+1} & \Rightarrow D_s, \\ D_s & \Rightarrow B_s. \end{aligned}\end{split}

These correspond to the embedding of $$O(n)$$ into $$O(n+1)$$ where $$n = 2s$$ or $$2s + 1$$. Finally, the branching rule for the embedding of a Levi subgroup is also implemented as a default rule.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1", style="coroots")
sage: A2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2", style="coroots")
sage: D4 = WeylCharacterRing("D4", style="coroots")
sage: B3 = WeylCharacterRing("B3", style="coroots")
sage: B4 = WeylCharacterRing("B4", style="coroots")
sage: A6 = WeylCharacterRing("A6", style="coroots")
sage: A7 = WeylCharacterRing("A7", style="coroots")
sage: def try_default_rule(R,S): return [R(f).branch(S) for f in R.fundamental_weights()]
sage: try_default_rule(A2,A1)
[A1(0) + A1(1), A1(0) + A1(1)]
sage: try_default_rule(D4,B3)
[B3(0,0,0) + B3(1,0,0), B3(1,0,0) + B3(0,1,0), B3(0,0,1), B3(0,0,1)]
sage: try_default_rule(B4,D4)
[D4(0,0,0,0) + D4(1,0,0,0), D4(1,0,0,0) + D4(0,1,0,0),
D4(0,1,0,0) + D4(0,0,1,1), D4(0,0,1,0) + D4(0,0,0,1)]
sage: try_default_rule(A7,D4)
[D4(1,0,0,0), D4(0,1,0,0), D4(0,0,1,1), D4(0,0,2,0) + D4(0,0,0,2),
D4(0,0,1,1),
D4(0,1,0,0),
D4(1,0,0,0)]
sage: try_default_rule(A6,B3)
[B3(1,0,0), B3(0,1,0), B3(0,0,2), B3(0,0,2), B3(0,1,0), B3(1,0,0)]


If a default rule is not known, you may cue Sage as to what the Lie group embedding is by supplying a rule from the list of predefined rules. We will treat these next.

Levi Type

These can be read off from the Dynkin diagram. If removing a node from the Dynkin diagram produces another Dynkin diagram, there is a branching rule. A Levi subgroup may or may not be maximal. If it is maximal, there may or may not be a built-in branching rule for but you may obtain the Levi branching rule by first branching to a suitable maximal subgroup. For these rules use the option rule="levi":

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} A_r & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \\ B_r & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \\ B_r & \Rightarrow B_{r-1} \\ C_r & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \\ C_r & \Rightarrow C_{r-1} \\ D_r & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \\ D_r & \Rightarrow D_{r-1} \\ E_r & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \quad r = 7,8 \\ E_r & \Rightarrow D_{r-1} \quad r = 6,7,8 \\ E_r & \Rightarrow E_{r-1} \\ F_4 & \Rightarrow B_3 \\ F_4 & \Rightarrow C_3 \\ G_2 & \Rightarrow A_1 \text{(short root)} \end{aligned}\end{split}

Not all Levi subgroups are maximal subgroups. If the Levi is not maximal there may or may not be a preprogrammed rule="levi" for it. If there is not, the branching rule may still be obtained by going through an intermediate subgroup that is maximal using rule=”extended”. Thus the other Levi branching rule from $$G_2 \Rightarrow A_1$$ corresponding to the long root is available by first branching $$G_2 \Rightarrow A_2$$ then $$A_2 \Rightarrow A_1$$. Similarly the branching rules to the Levi subgroup:

$E_r \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \quad r = 6,7,8$

may be obtained by first branching $$E_6 \Rightarrow A_5 \times A_1$$, $$E_7 \Rightarrow A_7$$ or $$E_8 \Rightarrow A_8$$.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1")
sage: A2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2")
sage: A3 = WeylCharacterRing("A3")
sage: A4 = WeylCharacterRing("A4")
sage: A5 = WeylCharacterRing("A5")
sage: B2 = WeylCharacterRing("B2")
sage: B3 = WeylCharacterRing("B3")
sage: B4 = WeylCharacterRing("B4")
sage: C2 = WeylCharacterRing("C2")
sage: C3 = WeylCharacterRing("C3")
sage: D3 = WeylCharacterRing("D3")
sage: D4 = WeylCharacterRing("D4")
sage: G2 = WeylCharacterRing("G2")
sage: F4 = WeylCharacterRing("F4",style="coroots")
sage: E6=WeylCharacterRing("E6",style="coroots")
sage: E7=WeylCharacterRing("E7",style="coroots")
sage: D5=WeylCharacterRing("D5",style="coroots")
sage: D6=WeylCharacterRing("D6",style="coroots")
sage: [B3(w).branch(A2,rule="levi") for w in B3.fundamental_weights()]
[A2(0,0,0) + A2(1,0,0) + A2(0,0,-1),
A2(0,0,0) + A2(1,0,0) + A2(1,1,0) + A2(1,0,-1) + A2(0,-1,-1) + A2(0,0,-1),
A2(-1/2,-1/2,-1/2) + A2(1/2,-1/2,-1/2) + A2(1/2,1/2,-1/2) + A2(1/2,1/2,1/2)]


The last example must be understood as follows. The representation of $$B_3$$ being branched is spin, which is not a representation of $$SO(7)$$ but of its double cover $$\mathrm{spin}(7)$$. The group $$A_2$$ is really GL(3) and the double cover of $$SO(7)$$ induces a cover of $$GL(3)$$ that is trivial over $$SL(3)$$ but not over the center of $$GL(3)$$. The weight lattice for this $$GL(3)$$ consists of triples $$(a,b,c)$$ of half integers such that $$a - b$$ and $$b - c$$ are in $$\ZZ$$, and this is reflected in the last decomposition.

sage: [C3(w).branch(A2,rule="levi") for w in C3.fundamental_weights()]
[A2(1,0,0) + A2(0,0,-1),
A2(1,1,0) + A2(1,0,-1) + A2(0,-1,-1),
A2(-1,-1,-1) + A2(1,-1,-1) + A2(1,1,-1) + A2(1,1,1)]
sage: [D4(w).branch(A3,rule="levi") for w in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[A3(1,0,0,0) + A3(0,0,0,-1),
A3(0,0,0,0) + A3(1,1,0,0) + A3(1,0,0,-1) + A3(0,0,-1,-1),
A3(1/2,-1/2,-1/2,-1/2) + A3(1/2,1/2,1/2,-1/2),
A3(-1/2,-1/2,-1/2,-1/2) + A3(1/2,1/2,-1/2,-1/2) + A3(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2)]
sage: [B3(w).branch(B2,rule="levi") for w in B3.fundamental_weights()]
[2*B2(0,0) + B2(1,0), B2(0,0) + 2*B2(1,0) + B2(1,1), 2*B2(1/2,1/2)]
sage: C3 = WeylCharacterRing(['C',3])
sage: [C3(w).branch(C2,rule="levi") for w in C3.fundamental_weights()]
[2*C2(0,0) + C2(1,0),
C2(0,0) + 2*C2(1,0) + C2(1,1),
C2(1,0) + 2*C2(1,1)]
sage: [D5(w).branch(D4,rule="levi") for w in D5.fundamental_weights()]
[2*D4(0,0,0,0) + D4(1,0,0,0),
D4(0,0,0,0) + 2*D4(1,0,0,0) + D4(1,1,0,0),
D4(1,0,0,0) + 2*D4(1,1,0,0) + D4(1,1,1,0),
D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,-1/2) + D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2),
D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,-1/2) + D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2)]
sage: G2(1,0,-1).branch(A1,rule="levi")
A1(1,0) + A1(1,-1) + A1(0,-1)
sage: E6=WeylCharacterRing("E6",style="coroots")
sage: D5=WeylCharacterRing("D5",style="coroots")
sage: fw = E6.fundamental_weights()
sage: [E6(fw[i]).branch(D5,rule="levi") for i in [1,2,6]]
[D5(0,0,0,0,0) + D5(0,0,0,0,1) + D5(1,0,0,0,0),
D5(0,0,0,0,0) + D5(0,0,0,1,0) + D5(0,0,0,0,1) + D5(0,1,0,0,0),
D5(0,0,0,0,0) + D5(0,0,0,1,0) + D5(1,0,0,0,0)]
sage: E7=WeylCharacterRing("E7",style="coroots")
sage: A3xA3xA1=WeylCharacterRing("A3xA3xA1",style="coroots")
sage: E7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A3xA3xA1,rule="extended") # long time (0.7s)
A3xA3xA1(0,0,1,0,0,1,1) + A3xA3xA1(0,1,0,0,1,0,0) + A3xA3xA1(1,0,0,1,0,0,1) +
A3xA3xA1(1,0,1,0,0,0,0) + A3xA3xA1(0,0,0,1,0,1,0) + A3xA3xA1(0,0,0,0,0,0,2)
sage: fw = E7.fundamental_weights()
sage: [E7(fw[i]).branch(D6,rule="levi") for i in [1,2,7]] # long time (0.3s)
[3*D6(0,0,0,0,0,0) + 2*D6(0,0,0,0,1,0) + D6(0,1,0,0,0,0),
3*D6(0,0,0,0,0,1) + 2*D6(1,0,0,0,0,0) + 2*D6(0,0,1,0,0,0) + D6(1,0,0,0,1,0),
D6(0,0,0,0,0,1) + 2*D6(1,0,0,0,0,0)]
sage: D7=WeylCharacterRing("D7",style="coroots")
sage: E8=WeylCharacterRing("E8",style="coroots")
sage: D7=WeylCharacterRing("D7",style="coroots")
sage: E8(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(D7,rule="levi") # long time (7s)
3*D7(0,0,0,0,0,0,0) + 2*D7(0,0,0,0,0,1,0) + 2*D7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1) + 2*D7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0)
+ D7(0,1,0,0,0,0,0) + 2*D7(0,0,1,0,0,0,0) + D7(0,0,0,1,0,0,0) + D7(1,0,0,0,0,1,0) + D7(1,0,0,0,0,0,1) + D7(2,0,0,0,0,0,0)
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(D7,rule="levi") # long time (0.6s)
D7(0,0,0,0,0,0,0) + D7(0,0,0,0,0,1,0) + D7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1) + 2*D7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0) + D7(0,1,0,0,0,0,0)
sage: [F4(fw).branch(B3,rule="levi") for fw in F4.fundamental_weights()] # long time (1s)
[B3(0,0,0) + 2*B3(1/2,1/2,1/2) + 2*B3(1,0,0) + B3(1,1,0),
B3(0,0,0) + 6*B3(1/2,1/2,1/2) + 5*B3(1,0,0) + 7*B3(1,1,0) + 3*B3(1,1,1)
+ 6*B3(3/2,1/2,1/2) + 2*B3(3/2,3/2,1/2) + B3(2,0,0) + 2*B3(2,1,0) + B3(2,1,1),
3*B3(0,0,0) + 6*B3(1/2,1/2,1/2) + 4*B3(1,0,0) + 3*B3(1,1,0) + B3(1,1,1) + 2*B3(3/2,1/2,1/2),
3*B3(0,0,0) + 2*B3(1/2,1/2,1/2) + B3(1,0,0)]
sage: [F4(fw).branch(C3,rule="levi") for fw in F4.fundamental_weights()] # long time (1s)
[3*C3(0,0,0) + 2*C3(1,1,1) + C3(2,0,0),
3*C3(0,0,0) + 6*C3(1,1,1) + 4*C3(2,0,0) + 2*C3(2,1,0) + 3*C3(2,2,0) + C3(2,2,2) + C3(3,1,0) + 2*C3(3,1,1),
2*C3(1,0,0) + 3*C3(1,1,0) + C3(2,0,0) + 2*C3(2,1,0) + C3(2,1,1),
2*C3(1,0,0) + C3(1,1,0)]
sage: A1xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1xA1")
sage: [A3(hwv).branch(A1xA1,rule="levi") for hwv in A3.fundamental_weights()]
[A1xA1(1,0,0,0) + A1xA1(0,0,1,0),
A1xA1(1,1,0,0) + A1xA1(1,0,1,0) + A1xA1(0,0,1,1),
A1xA1(1,1,1,0) + A1xA1(1,0,1,1)]
sage: A1xB1=WeylCharacterRing("A1xB1",style="coroots")
sage: [B3(x).branch(A1xB1,rule="levi") for x in B3.fundamental_weights()]
[2*A1xB1(1,0) + A1xB1(0,2),
3*A1xB1(0,0) + 2*A1xB1(1,2) + A1xB1(2,0) + A1xB1(0,2),
A1xB1(1,1) + 2*A1xB1(0,1)]


Automorphic Type

If the Dynkin diagram has a symmetry, then there is an automorphism that is a special case of a branching rule. There is also an exotic “triality” automorphism of $$D_4$$ having order 3. Use rule="automorphic" (or for $$D_4$$ rule="triality"):

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} A_r & \Rightarrow A_r \\ D_r & \Rightarrow D_r \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow E_6 \end{aligned}\end{split}

EXAMPLES:

sage: [A3(chi).branch(A3,rule="automorphic") for chi in A3.fundamental_weights()]
[A3(0,0,0,-1), A3(0,0,-1,-1), A3(0,-1,-1,-1)]
sage: [D4(chi).branch(D4,rule="automorphic") for chi in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[D4(1,0,0,0), D4(1,1,0,0), D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2), D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,-1/2)]


Here is an example with $$D_4$$ triality:

sage: [D4(chi).branch(D4,rule="triality") for chi in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,-1/2), D4(1,1,0,0), D4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2), D4(1,0,0,0)]


Symmetric Type

Related to the automorphic type, when $$G$$ admits an outer automorphism (usually of degree 2) we may consider the branching rule to the isotropy subgroup $$H$$. Outer automorphisms correspond to symmetries of the Dynkin diagram. For such isotropy subgroups use rule="symmetric". We may thus obtain the following branching rules.

$\begin{split}A_{2r} & \Rightarrow B_r \\ A_{2r-1} & \Rightarrow C_r \\ A_{2r-1} & \Rightarrow D_r \\ D_r & \Rightarrow B_{r-1} \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow F_4 \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow C_4 \\ D_4 & \Rightarrow G_2\end{split}$

The last branching rule, $$D_4 \Rightarrow G_2$$ is not to a maximal subgroup since $$D_4 \Rightarrow B_3 \Rightarrow G_2$$, but it is included for convenience.

In some cases, two outer automorphisms that differ by an inner automorphism may have different fixed subgroups. Thus, while the Dynkin diagram of $$E_6$$ has a single involutory automorphism, there are two involutions of the group (differing by an inner automorphism) with fixed subgroups $$F_4$$ and $$C_4$$. Similarly $$SL(2r)$$, of Cartan type $$A_{2r-1}$$, has subgroups $$SO(2r)$$ and $$Sp(2r)$$, both fixed subgroups of outer automorphisms that differ from each other by an inner automorphism.

In many cases the Dynkin diagram of $$H$$ can be obtained by folding the Dynkin diagram of $$G$$.

EXAMPLES:

sage: [w.branch(B2,rule="symmetric") for w in [A4(1,0,0,0,0),A4(1,1,0,0,0),A4(1,1,1,0,0),A4(2,0,0,0,0)]]
[B2(1,0), B2(1,1), B2(1,1), B2(0,0) + B2(2,0)]
sage: [A5(w).branch(C3,rule="symmetric") for w in A5.fundamental_weights()]
[C3(1,0,0), C3(0,0,0) + C3(1,1,0), C3(1,0,0) + C3(1,1,1), C3(0,0,0) + C3(1,1,0), C3(1,0,0)]
sage: [A5(w).branch(D3,rule="symmetric") for w in A5.fundamental_weights()]
[D3(1,0,0), D3(1,1,0), D3(1,1,-1) + D3(1,1,1), D3(1,1,0), D3(1,0,0)]
sage: [D4(x).branch(B3,rule="symmetric") for x in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[B3(0,0,0) + B3(1,0,0), B3(1,0,0) + B3(1,1,0), B3(1/2,1/2,1/2), B3(1/2,1/2,1/2)]
sage: [D4(x).branch(G2,rule="symmetric") for x in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[G2(0,0,0) + G2(1,0,-1), 2*G2(1,0,-1) + G2(2,-1,-1), G2(0,0,0) + G2(1,0,-1), G2(0,0,0) + G2(1,0,-1)]
sage: [E6(fw).branch(F4,rule="symmetric") for fw in E6.fundamental_weights()] # long time (4s)
[F4(0,0,0,0) + F4(0,0,0,1),
F4(0,0,0,1) + F4(1,0,0,0),
F4(0,0,0,1) + F4(1,0,0,0) + F4(0,0,1,0),
F4(1,0,0,0) + 2*F4(0,0,1,0) + F4(1,0,0,1) + F4(0,1,0,0),
F4(0,0,0,1) + F4(1,0,0,0) + F4(0,0,1,0),
F4(0,0,0,0) + F4(0,0,0,1)]
sage: E6=WeylCharacterRing("E6",style="coroots")
sage: C4=WeylCharacterRing("C4",style="coroots")
sage: chi = E6(1,0,0,0,0,0); chi.degree()
27
sage: chi.branch(C4,rule="symmetric")
C4(0,1,0,0)


Extended Type

If removing a node from the extended Dynkin diagram results in a Dynkin diagram, then there is a branching rule. Use rule="extended" for these. We will also use this classification for some rules that are not of this type, mainly involving type $$B$$, such as $$D_6 \Rightarrow B_3 \times B_3$$.

Here is the extended Dynkin diagram for $$D_6$$:

    0       6
O       O
|       |
|       |
O---O---O---O---O
1   2   3   4   6

Removing the node 3 results in an embedding $$D_3 \times D_3 \Rightarrow D_6$$. This corresponds to the embedding $$SO(6) \times SO(6) \Rightarrow SO(12)$$, and is of extended type. On the other hand the embedding $$SO(5) \times SO(7) \Rightarrow SO(12)$$ (e.g. $$B_2 \times B_3 \Rightarrow D_6$$) cannot be explained this way but for uniformity is implemented under rule="extended".

The following rules are implemented as special cases of rule="extended":

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} E_6 & \Rightarrow A_5 \times A_1, A_2 \times A_2 \times A_2 \\ E_7 & \Rightarrow A_7, D_6 \times A_1, A_3 \times A_3 \times A_1 \\ E_8 & \Rightarrow A_8, D_8, E_7 \times A_1, A_4 \times A_4, D_5 \times A_3, E_6 \times A_2 \\ F_4 & \Rightarrow B_4, C_3 \times A_1, A_2 \times A_2, A_3 \times A_1 \\ G_2 & \Rightarrow A_1 \times A_1 \end{aligned}\end{split}

Note that $$E_8$$ has only a limited number of representations of reasonably low degree.

EXAMPLES:

sage: [B3(x).branch(D3,rule="extended") for x in B3.fundamental_weights()]
[D3(0,0,0) + D3(1,0,0),
D3(1,0,0) + D3(1,1,0),
D3(1/2,1/2,-1/2) + D3(1/2,1/2,1/2)]
sage: [G2(w).branch(A2, rule="extended") for w in G2.fundamental_weights()]
[A2(0,0,0) + A2(1/3,1/3,-2/3) + A2(2/3,-1/3,-1/3),
A2(1/3,1/3,-2/3) + A2(2/3,-1/3,-1/3) + A2(1,0,-1)]
sage: [F4(fw).branch(B4,rule="extended") for fw in F4.fundamental_weights()] # long time (2s)
[B4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2) + B4(1,1,0,0),
B4(1,1,0,0) + B4(1,1,1,0) + B4(3/2,1/2,1/2,1/2) + B4(3/2,3/2,1/2,1/2) + B4(2,1,1,0),
B4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2) + B4(1,0,0,0) + B4(1,1,0,0) + B4(1,1,1,0) + B4(3/2,1/2,1/2,1/2),
B4(0,0,0,0) + B4(1/2,1/2,1/2,1/2) + B4(1,0,0,0)]

sage: E6 = WeylCharacterRing("E6", style="coroots")
sage: A2xA2xA2=WeylCharacterRing("A2xA2xA2",style="coroots")
sage: A5xA1=WeylCharacterRing("A5xA1",style="coroots")
sage: G2 = WeylCharacterRing("G2", style="coroots")
sage: A1xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1xA1", style="coroots")
sage: F4 = WeylCharacterRing("F4",style="coroots")
sage: A3xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("A3xA1", style="coroots")
sage: A2xA2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2xA2", style="coroots")
sage: A1xC3 = WeylCharacterRing("A1xC3",style="coroots")
sage: E6(1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A5xA1,rule="extended") # (0.7s)
A5xA1(0,0,0,1,0,0) + A5xA1(1,0,0,0,0,1)
sage: E6(1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A2xA2xA2, rule="extended") # (0.7s)
A2xA2xA2(0,1,1,0,0,0) + A2xA2xA2(1,0,0,0,0,1) + A2xA2xA2(0,0,0,1,1,0)
sage: E7 = WeylCharacterRing("E7",style="coroots")
sage: A7 = WeylCharacterRing("A7",style="coroots")
sage: E7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A7,rule="extended")
A7(0,0,0,1,0,0,0) + A7(1,0,0,0,0,0,1)
sage: D6xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("D6xA1",style="coroots")
sage: E7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(D6xA1,rule="extended")
D6xA1(0,0,0,0,1,0,1) + D6xA1(0,1,0,0,0,0,0) + D6xA1(0,0,0,0,0,0,2)
sage: A5xA2 =WeylCharacterRing("A5xA2",style="coroots")
sage: E7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A5xA2,rule="extended")
A5xA2(0,0,0,1,0,1,0) + A5xA2(0,1,0,0,0,0,1) + A5xA2(1,0,0,0,1,0,0) + A5xA2(0,0,0,0,0,1,1)
sage: E8 = WeylCharacterRing("E8",style="coroots")
sage: D8 = WeylCharacterRing("D8",style="coroots")
sage: A8 = WeylCharacterRing("A8",style="coroots")
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(D8,rule="extended") # long time (0.56s)
D8(0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0) + D8(0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0)
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A8,rule="extended") # long time (0.73s)
A8(0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0) + A8(0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0) + A8(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1)
sage: F4(1,0,0,0).branch(A1xC3,rule="extended") # (0.05s)
A1xC3(1,0,0,1) + A1xC3(2,0,0,0) + A1xC3(0,2,0,0)
sage: G2(0,1).branch(A1xA1, rule="extended")
A1xA1(2,0) + A1xA1(3,1) + A1xA1(0,2)
sage: F4(0,0,0,1).branch(A2xA2, rule="extended") # (0.4s)
A2xA2(0,1,0,1) + A2xA2(1,0,1,0) + A2xA2(0,0,1,1)
sage: F4(0,0,0,1).branch(A3xA1,rule="extended") # (0.34s)
A3xA1(0,0,0,0) + A3xA1(0,0,1,1) + A3xA1(0,1,0,0) + A3xA1(1,0,0,1) + A3xA1(0,0,0,2)
sage: D4=WeylCharacterRing("D4",style="coroots")
sage: D2xD2=WeylCharacterRing("D2xD2",style="coroots") # We get D4 => A1xA1xA1xA1 by remembering that A1xA1 = D2.
sage: [D4(fw).branch(D2xD2, rule="extended") for fw in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[D2xD2(1,1,0,0) + D2xD2(0,0,1,1),
D2xD2(2,0,0,0) + D2xD2(0,2,0,0) + D2xD2(1,1,1,1) + D2xD2(0,0,2,0) + D2xD2(0,0,0,2),
D2xD2(1,0,0,1) + D2xD2(0,1,1,0),
D2xD2(1,0,1,0) + D2xD2(0,1,0,1)]


Orthogonal Sum

Using rule="orthogonal_sum", for $$n = a + b + c + \cdots$$, you can get any branching rule

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} SO(n) & \Rightarrow SO(a) \times SO(b) \times SO(c) \times \cdots, \\ Sp(2n) & \Rightarrow Sp(2a) \times Sp(2b) \times Sp(2c) x \times \cdots, \end{aligned}\end{split}

where $$O(a)$$ is type $$D_r$$ for $$a = 2r$$ or $$B_r$$ for $$a = 2r+1$$ and $$Sp(2r)$$ is type $$C_r$$. In some cases these are also of extended type, as in the case $$D_3 \times D_3 \Rightarrow D_6$$ discussed above. But in other cases, for example $$B_3 \times B_3 \Rightarrow D_7$$, they are not of extended type.

Tensor

There are branching rules:

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} A_{rs-1} & \Rightarrow A_{r-1} \times A_{s-1}, \\ B_{2rs+r+s} & \Rightarrow B_r \times B_s, \\ D_{2rs+s} & \Rightarrow B_r \times D_s, \\ D_{2rs} & \Rightarrow D_r \times D_s, \\ D_{2rs} & \Rightarrow C_r \times C_s, \\ C_{2rs+s} & \Rightarrow B_r \times C_s, \\ C_{2rs} & \Rightarrow C_r \times D_s. \end{aligned}\end{split}

corresponding to the tensor product homomorphism. For type $$A$$, the homomorphism is $$GL(r) \times GL(s) \Rightarrow GL(rs)$$. For the classical types, the relevant fact is that if $$V, W$$ are orthogonal or symplectic spaces, that is, spaces endowed with symmetric or skew-symmetric bilinear forms, then $$V \otimes W$$ is also an orthogonal space (if $$V$$ and $$W$$ are both orthogonal or both symplectic) or symplectic (if one of $$V$$ and $$W$$ is orthogonal and the other symplectic).

The corresponding branching rules are obtained using rule="tensor".

EXAMPLES:

sage: A5=WeylCharacterRing("A5", style="coroots")
sage: A2xA1=WeylCharacterRing("A2xA1", style="coroots")
sage: [A5(hwv).branch(A2xA1, rule="tensor") for hwv in A5.fundamental_weights()]
[A2xA1(1,0,1),
A2xA1(0,1,2) + A2xA1(2,0,0),
A2xA1(1,1,1) + A2xA1(0,0,3),
A2xA1(1,0,2) + A2xA1(0,2,0),
A2xA1(0,1,1)]
sage: B4=WeylCharacterRing("B4",style="coroots")
sage: B1xB1=WeylCharacterRing("B1xB1",style="coroots")
sage: [B4(f).branch(B1xB1,rule="tensor") for f in B4.fundamental_weights()]
[B1xB1(2,2),
B1xB1(2,0) + B1xB1(2,4) + B1xB1(4,2) + B1xB1(0,2),
B1xB1(2,0) + B1xB1(2,2) + B1xB1(2,4) + B1xB1(4,2) + B1xB1(4,4) + B1xB1(6,0) + B1xB1(0,2) + B1xB1(0,6),
B1xB1(1,3) + B1xB1(3,1)]
sage: D4=WeylCharacterRing("D4",style="coroots")
sage: C2xC1=WeylCharacterRing("C2xC1",style="coroots")
sage: [D4(f).branch(C2xC1,rule="tensor") for f in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[C2xC1(1,0,1),
C2xC1(0,1,2) + C2xC1(2,0,0) + C2xC1(0,0,2),
C2xC1(1,0,1),
C2xC1(0,1,0) + C2xC1(0,0,2)]
sage: C3=WeylCharacterRing("C3",style="coroots")
sage: B1xC1=WeylCharacterRing("B1xC1",style="coroots")
sage: [C3(f).branch(B1xC1,rule="tensor") for f in C3.fundamental_weights()]
[B1xC1(2,1), B1xC1(2,2) + B1xC1(4,0), B1xC1(4,1) + B1xC1(0,3)]


Symmetric Power

The $$k$$-th symmetric and exterior power homomorphisms map

$GL(n) \Rightarrow GL\left(\binom{n+k-1}{k}\right) \times GL\left(\binom{n}{k}\right).$

The corresponding branching rules are not implemented but a special case is. The $$k$$-th symmetric power homomorphism $$SL(2) \Rightarrow GL(k+1)$$ has its image inside of $$SO(2r+1)$$ if $$k = 2r$$ and inside of $$Sp(2r)$$ if $$k = 2r - 1$$. Hence there are branching rules:

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} B_r & \Rightarrow A_1 \\ C_r & \Rightarrow A_1 \end{aligned}\end{split}

and these may be obtained using the rule “symmetric_power”.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A1=WeylCharacterRing("A1",style="coroots")
sage: B3=WeylCharacterRing("B3",style="coroots")
sage: C3=WeylCharacterRing("C3",style="coroots")
sage: [B3(fw).branch(A1,rule="symmetric_power") for fw in B3.fundamental_weights()]
[A1(6), A1(2) + A1(6) + A1(10), A1(0) + A1(6)]
sage: [C3(fw).branch(A1,rule="symmetric_power") for fw in C3.fundamental_weights()]
[A1(5), A1(4) + A1(8), A1(3) + A1(9)]


Miscellaneous

Use rule="miscellaneous" for the following embeddings of maximal subgroups, all involving exceptional groups.

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} B_3 & \Rightarrow G_2, \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow G_2, \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow A_2, \\ F_4 & \Rightarrow G_2 \times A_1, \\ E_6 & \Rightarrow G_2 \times A_2, \\ E_7 & \Rightarrow G_2 \times C_3, \\ E_7 & \Rightarrow F_4 \times A_1, \\ E_7 & \Rightarrow A_1 \times A_1, \\ E_7 & \Rightarrow G_2 \times A_1, \\ E_8 & \Rightarrow G_2 \times F_4. \\ E_8 & \Rightarrow A2 \times A_1. \\ E_8 & \Rightarrow B2. \end{aligned}\end{split}

Except for those embeddings available by rule="extended", these are the only embeddings of these groups as maximal subgroups. There may be other embeddings besides these. For example, there are other more obvious embeddings of $$A_2$$ and $$G_2$$ into $$E_6$$. However the embeddings in this table are characterized as embeddings as maximal subgroups. Regarding the embeddings of $$A_2$$ and $$G_2$$ in $$E_6$$, the embeddings in question may be characterized by the condition that the 27-dimensional representations of $$E_6$$ restrict irreducibly to $$A_2$$ or $$G_2$$. Since $$G_2$$ has a subgroup isomorphic to $$A_2$$, it is worth mentioning that the composite branching rules:

branching_rule("E6","G2","miscellaneous")*branching_rule("G2","A2","extended")
branching_rule("E6","A2","miscellaneous")


are distinct.

These embeddings are described more completely (with references to the literature) in the thematic tutorial at:

http://www.sagemath.org/doc/thematic_tutorials/lie.html

EXAMPLES:

sage: G2 = WeylCharacterRing("G2")
sage: [fw1, fw2, fw3] = B3.fundamental_weights()
sage: B3(fw1+fw3).branch(G2, rule="miscellaneous")
G2(1,0,-1) + G2(2,-1,-1) + G2(2,0,-2)
sage: E6 = WeylCharacterRing("E6",style="coroots")
sage: G2 = WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: E6(1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(G2,"miscellaneous")
G2(2,0)
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: E6(1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A2,rule="miscellaneous")
A2(2,2)
sage: E6(0,1,0,0,0,0).branch(A2,rule="miscellaneous")
A2(1,1) + A2(1,4) + A2(4,1)
sage: E6(0,0,0,0,0,2).branch(G2,"miscellaneous") # long time (0.59s)
G2(0,0) + G2(2,0) + G2(1,1) + G2(0,2) + G2(4,0)
sage: F4=WeylCharacterRing("F4",style="coroots")
sage: G2xA1=WeylCharacterRing("G2xA1",style="coroots")
sage: F4(0,0,1,0).branch(G2xA1,rule="miscellaneous")
G2xA1(1,0,0) + G2xA1(1,0,2) + G2xA1(1,0,4) + G2xA1(1,0,6) + G2xA1(0,1,4) + G2xA1(2,0,2) + G2xA1(0,0,2) + G2xA1(0,0,6)
sage: E6 = WeylCharacterRing("E6",style="coroots")
sage: A2xG2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2xG2",style="coroots")
sage: E6(1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(A2xG2,rule="miscellaneous")
A2xG2(0,1,1,0) + A2xG2(2,0,0,0)
sage: E7=WeylCharacterRing("E7",style="coroots")
sage: G2xC3=WeylCharacterRing("G2xC3",style="coroots")
sage: E7(0,1,0,0,0,0,0).branch(G2xC3,rule="miscellaneous") # long time (1.84s)
G2xC3(1,0,1,0,0) + G2xC3(1,0,1,1,0) + G2xC3(0,1,0,0,1) + G2xC3(2,0,1,0,0) + G2xC3(0,0,1,1,0)
sage: F4xA1=WeylCharacterRing("F4xA1",style="coroots")
sage: E7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(F4xA1,"miscellaneous")
F4xA1(0,0,0,1,1) + F4xA1(0,0,0,0,3)
sage: A1xA1=WeylCharacterRing("A1xA1",style="coroots")
sage: E7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1xA1,rule="miscellaneous")
A1xA1(2,5) + A1xA1(4,1) + A1xA1(6,3)
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: E7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A2,rule="miscellaneous")
A2(0,6) + A2(6,0)
sage: G2xA1=WeylCharacterRing("G2xA1",style="coroots")
sage: E7(1,0,0,0,0,0,0).branch(G2xA1,rule="miscellaneous")
G2xA1(1,0,4) + G2xA1(0,1,0) + G2xA1(2,0,2) + G2xA1(0,0,2)
sage: E8 = WeylCharacterRing("E8",style="coroots")
sage: G2xF4 = WeylCharacterRing("G2xF4",style="coroots")
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(G2xF4,rule="miscellaneous") # long time (0.76s)
G2xF4(1,0,0,0,0,1) + G2xF4(0,1,0,0,0,0) + G2xF4(0,0,1,0,0,0)
sage: E8=WeylCharacterRing("E8",style="coroots")
sage: A1xA2=WeylCharacterRing("A1xA2",style="coroots")
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1xA2,rule="miscellaneous") # long time (0.76s)
A1xA2(2,0,0) + A1xA2(2,2,2) + A1xA2(4,0,3) + A1xA2(4,3,0) + A1xA2(6,1,1) + A1xA2(0,1,1)
sage: B2=WeylCharacterRing("B2",style="coroots")
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(B2,rule="miscellaneous") # long time (0.53s)
B2(0,2) + B2(0,6) + B2(3,2)


A1 maximal subgroups of exceptional groups

There are seven cases where the exceptional group $$G_2$$, $$F_4$$, $$E_7$$ or $$E_8$$ contains a maximal subgroup of type $$A_1$$. These are tabulated in Theorem 1 of Testerman, The construction of the maximal A1’s in the exceptional algebraic groups, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 116 (1992), no. 3, 635-644. The names of these branching rules are roman numerals referring to the seven cases of her Theorem 1. Use these branching rules as in the following examples.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A1=WeylCharacterRing("A1",style="coroots")
sage: G2=WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: F4=WeylCharacterRing("F4",style="coroots")
sage: E7=WeylCharacterRing("E7",style="coroots")
sage: E8=WeylCharacterRing("E8",style="coroots")
sage: [G2(f).branch(A1,rule="i") for f in G2.fundamental_weights()]
[A1(6), A1(2) + A1(10)]
sage: F4(1,0,0,0).branch(A1,rule="ii")
A1(2) + A1(10) + A1(14) + A1(22)
sage: E7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1,rule="iii")
A1(9) + A1(17) + A1(27)
sage: E7(0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1,rule="iv")
A1(5) + A1(11) + A1(15) + A1(21)
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1,rule="v") # long time (0.6s)
A1(2) + A1(14) + A1(22) + A1(26) + A1(34) + A1(38) + A1(46) + A1(58)
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1,rule="vi") # long time (0.6s)
A1(2) + A1(10) + A1(14) + A1(18) + A1(22) + A1(26) + A1(28) + A1(34) + A1(38) + A1(46)
sage: E8(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1).branch(A1,rule="vii") # long time (0.6s)
A1(2) + A1(6) + A1(10) + A1(14) + A1(16) + A1(18) + 2*A1(22) + A1(26) + A1(28) + A1(34) + A1(38)


Branching Rules From Plethysms

Nearly all branching rules $$G \Rightarrow H$$ where $$G$$ is of type $$A$$, $$B$$, $$C$$ or $$D$$ are covered by the preceding rules. The function branching_rule_from_plethysm() covers the remaining cases.

This is a general rule that includes any branching rule from types $$A$$, $$B$$, $$C$$, or $$D$$ as a special case. Thus it could be used in place of the above rules and would give the same results. However it is most useful when branching from $$G$$ to a maximal subgroup $$H$$ such that $$\mathrm{rank}(H) < \mathrm{rank}(G) - 1$$.

We consider a homomorphism $$H \Rightarrow G$$ where $$G$$ is one of $$SL(r+1)$$, $$SO(2r+1)$$, $$Sp(2r)$$ or $$SO(2r)$$. The function branching_rule_from_plethysm() produces the corresponding branching rule. The main ingredient is the character $$\chi$$ of the representation of $$H$$ that is the homomorphism to $$GL(r+1)$$, $$GL(2r+1)$$ or $$GL(2r)$$.

This rule is so powerful that it contains the other rules implemented above as special cases. First let us consider the symmetric fifth power representation of $$SL(2)$$.

sage: A1=WeylCharacterRing("A1",style="coroots")
sage: chi=A1([5])
sage: chi.degree()
6
sage: chi.frobenius_schur_indicator()
-1


This confirms that the character has degree 6 and is symplectic, so it corresponds to a homomorphism $$SL(2) \Rightarrow Sp(6)$$, and there is a corresponding branching rule $$C_3 \Rightarrow A_1$$.

sage: C3 = WeylCharacterRing("C3",style="coroots")
sage: sym5rule = branching_rule_from_plethysm(chi,"C3")
sage: [C3(hwv).branch(A1,rule=sym5rule) for hwv in C3.fundamental_weights()]
[A1(5), A1(4) + A1(8), A1(3) + A1(9)]


This is identical to the results we would obtain using rule="symmetric_power". The next example gives a branching not available by other standard rules.

sage: G2 = WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: D7 = WeylCharacterRing("D7",style="coroots")
14
1
sage: spin = D7(0,0,0,0,0,1,0); spin.degree()
64
G2(1,1)


We have confirmed that the adjoint representation of $$G_2$$ gives a homomorphism into $$SO(14)$$, and that the pullback of the one of the two 64 dimensional spin representations to $$SO(14)$$ is an irreducible representation of $$G_2$$.

We do not actually have to create the character or its parent WeylCharacterRing to create the branching rule:

sage: b = branching_rule("C7","C3(0,0,1)","plethysm"); b
plethysm (along C3(0,0,1)) branching rule C7 => C3


Isomorphic Type

Although not usually referred to as a branching rule, the effects of the accidental isomorphisms may be handled using rule="isomorphic":

\begin{split}\begin{aligned} B_2 & \Rightarrow C_2 \\ C_2 & \Rightarrow B_2 \\ A_3 & \Rightarrow D_3 \\ D_3 & \Rightarrow A_3 \\ D_2 & \Rightarrow A_1 \Rightarrow A_1 \\ B_1 & \Rightarrow A_1 \\ C_1 & \Rightarrow A_1 \end{aligned}\end{split}

EXAMPLES:

sage: B2 = WeylCharacterRing("B2")
sage: C2 = WeylCharacterRing("C2")
sage: [B2(x).branch(C2, rule="isomorphic") for x in B2.fundamental_weights()]
[C2(1,1), C2(1,0)]
sage: [C2(x).branch(B2, rule="isomorphic") for x in C2.fundamental_weights()]
[B2(1/2,1/2), B2(1,0)]
sage: D3 = WeylCharacterRing("D3")
sage: A3 = WeylCharacterRing("A3")
sage: [A3(x).branch(D3,rule="isomorphic") for x in A3.fundamental_weights()]
[D3(1/2,1/2,1/2), D3(1,0,0), D3(1/2,1/2,-1/2)]
sage: [D3(x).branch(A3,rule="isomorphic") for x in D3.fundamental_weights()]
[A3(1/2,1/2,-1/2,-1/2), A3(1/4,1/4,1/4,-3/4), A3(3/4,-1/4,-1/4,-1/4)]


Here $$A_3(x,y,z,w)$$ can be understood as a representation of $$SL(4)$$. The weights $$x,y,z,w$$ and $$x+t,y+t,z+t,w+t$$ represent the same representation of $$SL(4)$$ - though not of $$GL(4)$$ - since $$A_3(x+t,y+t,z+t,w+t)$$ is the same as $$A_3(x,y,z,w)$$ tensored with $$\mathrm{det}^t$$. So as a representation of $$SL(4)$$, A3(1/4,1/4,1/4,-3/4) is the same as A3(1,1,1,0). The exterior square representation $$SL(4) \Rightarrow GL(6)$$ admits an invariant symmetric bilinear form, so is a representation $$SL(4) \Rightarrow SO(6)$$ that lifts to an isomorphism $$SL(4) \Rightarrow \mathrm{Spin}(6)$$. Conversely, there are two isomorphisms $$SO(6) \Rightarrow SL(4)$$, of which we’ve selected one.

In cases like this you might prefer style="coroots":

sage: A3 = WeylCharacterRing("A3",style="coroots")
sage: D3 = WeylCharacterRing("D3",style="coroots")
sage: [D3(fw) for fw in D3.fundamental_weights()]
[D3(1,0,0), D3(0,1,0), D3(0,0,1)]
sage: [D3(fw).branch(A3,rule="isomorphic") for fw in D3.fundamental_weights()]
[A3(0,1,0), A3(0,0,1), A3(1,0,0)]
sage: D2 = WeylCharacterRing("D2", style="coroots")
sage: A1xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1xA1", style="coroots")
sage: [D2(fw).branch(A1xA1,rule="isomorphic") for fw in D2.fundamental_weights()]
[A1xA1(1,0), A1xA1(0,1)]


Branching From a Reducible WeylCharacterRing

If the Cartan Type of R is reducible, we may project a character onto any of the components, or any combination of components. The rule to project on the first component is specified by the string "proj1", the rule to project on the second component is "proj2". To project on the first and third components, use "proj13" and so on.

EXAMPLES:

sage: A2xG2=WeylCharacterRing("A2xG2",style="coroots")
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: G2=WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: A2xG2(1,0,1,0).branch(A2,rule="proj1")
7*A2(1,0)
sage: A2xG2(1,0,1,0).branch(G2,rule="proj2")
3*G2(1,0)
sage: A2xA2xG2=WeylCharacterRing("A2xA2xG2",style="coroots")
sage: A2xA2xG2(0,1,1,1,0,1).branch(A2xG2,rule="proj13")
8*A2xG2(0,1,0,1)


A more general way of specifying a branching rule from a reducible type is to supply a list of rules, one component rule for each component type in the root system. In the following example, we branch the fundamental representations of $$D_4$$ down to $$A_1\times A_1\times A_1 \times A_1$$ through the intermediate group $$D_2\times D_2$$. We use multiplicative notation to compose the branching rules. There is no need to construct the intermediate WeylCharacterRing with type $$D_2\times D_2$$.

EXAMPLES:

sage: D4 = WeylCharacterRing("D4",style="coroots")
sage: A1xA1xA1xA1 = WeylCharacterRing("A1xA1xA1xA1",style="coroots")
sage: b = branching_rule("D2","A1xA1","isomorphic")
sage: br = branching_rule("D4","D2xD2","extended")*branching_rule("D2xD2","A1xA1xA1xA1",[b,b])
sage: [D4(fw).branch(A1xA1xA1xA1,rule=br) for fw in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[A1xA1xA1xA1(1,1,0,0) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,0,1,1),
A1xA1xA1xA1(1,1,1,1) + A1xA1xA1xA1(2,0,0,0) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,2,0,0) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,0,2,0) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,0,0,2),
A1xA1xA1xA1(1,0,0,1) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,1,1,0),
A1xA1xA1xA1(1,0,1,0) + A1xA1xA1xA1(0,1,0,1)]


In the list of rules to be supplied in branching from a reducible root system, we may use two key words “omit” and “identity”. The term “omit” means that we omit one factor, projecting onto the remaining factors. The term “identity” is supplied when the irreducible factor Cartan Types of both the target and the source are the same, and the component branching rule is to be the identity map. For example, we have projection maps from $$A_3\times A_2$$ to $$A_3$$ and $$A_2$$, and the corresponding branching may be accomplished as follows. In this example the same could be accomplished using rule="proj2".

EXAMPLES:

sage: A3xA2=WeylCharacterRing("A3xA2",style="coroots")
sage: A3=WeylCharacterRing("A3",style="coroots")
sage: chi = A3xA2(0,1,0,1,0)
sage: chi.branch(A3,rule=["identity","omit"])
3*A3(0,1,0)
sage: A2=WeylCharacterRing("A2",style="coroots")
sage: chi.branch(A2,rule=["omit","identity"])
6*A2(1,0)


Yet another way of branching from a reducible root system with repeated Cartan types is to embed along the diagonal. The branching rule is equivalent to the tensor product, as the example shows:

sage: G2=WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: G2xG2=WeylCharacterRing("G2xG2",style="coroots")
sage: G2=WeylCharacterRing("G2",style="coroots")
sage: G2xG2(1,0,0,1).branch(G2,rule="diagonal")
G2(1,0) + G2(2,0) + G2(1,1)
sage: G2xG2(1,0,0,1).branch(G2,rule="diagonal") == G2(1,0)*G2(0,1)
True


Suppose you want to branch from a group $$G$$ to a subgroup $$H$$. Arrange the embedding so that a Cartan subalgebra $$U$$ of $$H$$ is contained in a Cartan subalgebra $$T$$ of $$G$$. There is thus a mapping from the weight spaces $$\mathrm{Lie}(T)^* \Rightarrow \mathrm{Lie}(U)^*$$. Two embeddings will produce identical branching rules if they differ by an element of the Weyl group of $$H$$.

The rule is this map $$\mathrm{Lie}(T)^*$$, which is G.space(), to $$\mathrm{Lie}(U)^*$$, which is H.space(), which you may implement as a function. As an example, let us consider how to implement the branching rule $$A_3 \Rightarrow C_2$$. Here $$H = C_2 = Sp(4)$$ embedded as a subgroup in $$A_3 = GL(4)$$. The Cartan subalgebra $$U$$ consists of diagonal matrices with eigenvalues $$u_1, u_2, -u_2, -u_1$$. The C2.space() is the two dimensional vector spaces consisting of the linear functionals $$u_1$$ and $$u_2$$ on $$U$$. On the other hand $$\mathrm{Lie}(T)$$ is $$\RR^4$$. A convenient way to see the restriction is to think of it as the adjoint of the map $$(u_1, u_2) \mapsto (u_1,u_2, -u_2, -u_1)$$, that is, $$(x_0, x_1, x_2, x_3) \Rightarrow (x_0 - x_3, x_1 - x_2)$$. Hence we may encode the rule as follows:

def rule(x):
return [x[0]-x[3],x[1]-x[2]]


or simply:

rule = lambda x : [x[0]-x[3],x[1]-x[2]]


We may now make and use the branching rule as follows.

EXAMPLES:

sage: br = BranchingRule("A3", "C2", lambda x : [x[0]-x[3],x[1]-x[2]], "homemade"); br
homemade branching rule A3 => C2
sage: [A3,C2]=[WeylCharacterRing(x,style="coroots") for x in ["A3","C2"]]
sage: A3(0,1,0).branch(C2,rule=br)
C2(0,0) + C2(0,1)

sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.branching_rule(Rtype, Stype, rule='default')

Creates a branching rule.

INPUT:

• R – the Weyl Character Ring of $$G$$
• S – the Weyl Character Ring of $$H$$
• rule – a string describing the branching rule as a map from the weight space of $$S$$ to the weight space of $$R$$.

If the rule parameter is omitted, in some cases, a default rule is supplied. See branch_weyl_character().

EXAMPLES:

sage: rule = branching_rule(CartanType("A3"),CartanType("C2"),"symmetric")
sage: [rule(x) for x in WeylCharacterRing("A3").fundamental_weights()]
[[1, 0], [1, 1], [1, 0]]

sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.branching_rule_from_plethysm(chi, cartan_type, return_matrix=False)

Create the branching rule of a plethysm.

INPUT:

• chi – the character of an irreducible representation $$\pi$$ of a group $$G$$
• cartan_type – a classical Cartan type ($$A$$,B,C or $$D$$).

It is assumed that the image of the irreducible representation pi naturally has its image in the group $$G$$.

Returns a branching rule for this plethysm.

EXAMPLES:

The adjoint representation $$SL(3) \to GL(8)$$ factors through $$SO(8)$$. The branching rule in question will describe how representations of $$SO(8)$$ composed with this homomorphism decompose into irreducible characters of $$SL(3)$$:

sage: A2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2")
sage: A2 = WeylCharacterRing("A2", style="coroots")
A2(1,1)
8
1


This confirms that $$ad$$ has degree 8 and is orthogonal, hence factors through $$SO(8)$$ which is type $$D_4$$:

sage: br = branching_rule_from_plethysm(ad,"D4")
sage: D4 = WeylCharacterRing("D4")
sage: [D4(f).branch(A2,rule = br) for f in D4.fundamental_weights()]
[A2(1,1), A2(0,3) + A2(1,1) + A2(3,0), A2(1,1), A2(1,1)]

sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.get_branching_rule(Rtype, Stype, rule='default')

Creates a branching rule.

INPUT:

• R – the Weyl Character Ring of $$G$$
• S – the Weyl Character Ring of $$H$$
• rule – a string describing the branching rule as a map from the weight space of $$S$$ to the weight space of $$R$$.

If the rule parameter is omitted, in some cases, a default rule is supplied. See branch_weyl_character().

EXAMPLES:

sage: rule = branching_rule(CartanType("A3"),CartanType("C2"),"symmetric")
sage: [rule(x) for x in WeylCharacterRing("A3").fundamental_weights()]
[[1, 0], [1, 1], [1, 0]]

sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules.maximal_subgroups(ct, mode='print_rules')

Given a classical Cartan type (of rank less than or equal to 8) this prints the Cartan types of maximal subgroups, with a method of obtaining the branching rule. The string to the right of the colon in the output is a command to create a branching rule.

INPUT:

• ct – a classical irreducible Cartan type

Returns a list of maximal subgroups of ct.

EXAMPLES:

sage: from sage.combinat.root_system.branching_rules import maximal_subgroups
sage: maximal_subgroups("D4")
B3:branching_rule("D4","B3","symmetric")
A2:branching_rule("D4","A2(1,1)","plethysm")
A1xC2:branching_rule("D4","C1xC2","tensor")*branching_rule("C1xC2","A1xC2",[branching_rule("C1","A1","isomorphic"),"identity"])
A1xA1xA1xA1:branching_rule("D4","D2xD2","orthogonal_sum")*branching_rule("D2xD2","A1xA1xA1xA1",[branching_rule("D2","A1xA1","isomorphic"),branching_rule("D2","A1xA1","isomorphic")])


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