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For a root system $\Phi$ of rank $n$ with Weyl group $W$ and a dominant integral weight $\lambda$ consider the Hall-Littlewood polynomial $$P_\lambda(x_1,\ldots,x_n;t)=\frac1{W_\lambda(t)}\sum_{w\in W}w\left(e^\lambda\prod_{\alpha\in\Phi^-}\frac{1-te^\alpha}{1-e^\alpha}\right).$$ (The normalizing factor $W_\lambda(t)$ is the Poincaré series of the stabilizer $W_\lambda$.)

The branching rule for classical, i.e. $\mathfrak{gl}_n$, Hall-Littlewood polynomials is essentially contained in Macdonald's "Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials", it appears, for instance, here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.7035.pdf as (4). My question is whether similar branching rules are known in the symplectic and orthogonal cases.

(As pointed out in the above paper, when iterated such a branching rule is equivalent to a formula for $P_\lambda$ in the form of a sum over the Gelfand-Tsetlin basis.)

Update. It's worth mentioning that the branching rule for $\mathfrak{gl}_n$ can be generalized to Macdonald polynomials (see, for instance, Theorem 1.1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.0714.pdf). Of course, an analog of this result for other classical types would more than answer my question.

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    $\begingroup$ This is unfamiliar territory for me, but I'm aware of at least one source (accessible freely online) which may point in this direction: ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2460224 (and of course there are a number of older articles which develop some branching rules for classical types). $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 12, 2017 at 15:24

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