Timeline for Reference request: injective homomorphisms between unitary groups
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| Dec 16, 2012 at 23:15 | comment | added | Ian Agol | A couple of comments: continuous homomorphisms between compact Lie groups are analytic, so may be studied via representation theory as others have indicated. Secondly, the kernel of a non-abelian representation of $U(m), m>1$ will be a subroup of $Z(U(m))\cong U(1)$. Thus, sorting through the faithful representation might be a bit involved, but should reduce to some combinatorics. | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Alain Valette | I think that the question is slightly more subtle than it looks, first because the OP asks for injective homomorphisms (= faithful reps), second because what you find in textbooks is $SU(m)$ rather than $U(m)$ ($SU(m)$ corresponds to $SL(m)$, while $U(m)$ corresponds to $GL(m)$, do you agree Mikhail?). | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 21:06 | comment | added | Paul McKenney | @Asaf: apologies if the question wasn't appropriate for MO; coming from a different area, I knew that such maps would be well-studied but not under which guise a classification would appear. I'm happy to vote to close but don't have the reputation at the moment. | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | Mikhail Borovoi | One can find a table of dimensions of certain irreducible representations of $U(m)$ (or, which is the same, of ${\rm SL}(m)$)and also the classification by highest weights, in the book by Onishchik and Vinberg "Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups" | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 18:31 | comment | added | paul garrett | This is asking about direct sums of irreducible unitary repns of $U(m)$ with total dimension at most $n$. The classification of irreducibles (they are all unitary) of $U(m)$ is by highest weights, and is well-known, well-studied, and visible in many textbooks. The question of the dimensions of the irreducibles for $U(m)$ with $m\ge 3$ is more complicated than the highest-weight classification, but Kostant's weight multiplicity formula tells the dimensions of the weight spaces, giving finer information. | |
| Dec 16, 2012 at 18:15 | comment | added | Asaf | You are looking at (faithful) finite dimensional rep. of a compact Lie groups, they are well studied. I guess this material is covered at Knapp's book or Fulton-Harris. (I happen to have Weyl's book in front of me here, but it is more physics-oriented). I suggest to close the topic as this is not a research level question. | |
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