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Jun 6, 2010 at 2:12 comment added Victor Protsak There are philosophical reasons why methods such as Littelmann paths and crystal bases cannot be easily adapted to compute decomposition of symmetric powers.
Jun 6, 2010 at 0:44 comment added Eric Rowell @Bruce: one way is to cheat and use dimensions of the irreps to determine which ones add up to the dimension of $Sym^k(V)$.
Jun 6, 2010 at 0:17 comment added Bruce Westbury This is a good way to decompose a tensor power. I don't see how to pick out the symmetric power.
Jun 6, 2010 at 0:03 history edited Eric Rowell CC BY-SA 2.5
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Jun 5, 2010 at 23:54 history answered Eric Rowell CC BY-SA 2.5