A Combinatorial Proof of the Positivity of the Lusztig q-Analogue of Weight Multiplicity for Rank 2 Lie Algebras

We prove the positivity of Lusztig's q-analogue of weight multiplicity in a purely combinatorial way for rank 2 Lie algebras. Each summand in the polynomial can be interpreted as a linear combination of positive roots. We prove that all negative coefficients are cancelled in the polynomial. Fu...

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Main Author: Gillespie, Jason Michael
Other Authors: Mathematics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11071
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12042003-173047