On the structures of hive algebras and tensor product algebras for general linear groups of low rank

Abstract

The tensor product algebra [Formula: see text] for the complex general linear group [Formula: see text], introduced by Howe et al., describes the decomposition of tensor products of irreducible polynomial representations of [Formula: see text]. Using the hive model for the Littlewood–Richardson (LR) coefficients, we provide a finite presentation of the algebra [Formula: see text] for [Formula: see text] in terms of generators and relations, thereby giving a description of highest weight vectors of irreducible representations in the tensor products. We also compute the generating function of certain sums of LR coefficients.