I am reading through "Crystal Base and a Generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule for the Classical Lie Algebras" by Nakashima, and there is something I am not understanding correctly.
Line (2.3.5) gives a description of $B(\omega_M+\omega_N)$. If $M=N=1$, then it seems like $w$ can never be in an $(a,b)$-configuration, since there cannot exist two distinct integers between $1$ and $M$. Should we then interpret condition (M.N.2) as being vacuous?
If so, then there is something else I am getting wrong. If (M.N.2) is vacuous when $M=N=1$, then $B(\omega_1+\omega_1)$ has fourteen elements. But then this means the corresponding representation has dimension 14. However, the dimension formula for the representation parameterized by $(\lambda_1\geq\ldots\lambda_n\geq 0)$ is
$\prod_{1\leq i\le j\leq n}\frac{l_i^2-l_j^2}{m_i^2-m_j^2}\prod_{1\leq i\leq n} \frac{l_i}{m_i}, $
where $l_i=\lambda_i+n-i+1/2$ and $m_i=n-i+1/2$. (I got this from Fulton and Harris). Therefore the representation corresponding to $(1,1)$ should have dimension 10, not 14.