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This work is motivated by the observation that the character of an irreducible gl n -module (a Schur polynomial), being the sum of exponentials of integer points in a Gelfand–Tsetlin polytope, can be expressed by using Brion’s theorem. The main result is that, in the case of a regular highest weight, the contributions of all nonsimplicial vertices vanish, while the number of simplicial vertices is n! and the contributions of these vertices are precisely the summands in Weyl’s character formula.
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Translated from Funktsional’nyi Analiz i Ego Prilozheniya, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 20–30, 2016
Original Russian Text Copyright © by I. Yu. Makhlin
This work was supported in part by the Simons Foundation and the Möbius Contest Foundation for Young Scientists.
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Makhlin, I.Y. Brion’s theorem for Gelfand–Tsetlin polytopes. Funct Anal Its Appl 50, 98–106 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10688-016-0135-2
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