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Crystal base and a generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson rule for the classical Lie algebras

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We shall give a generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson rule forU q (g) associated with, the classical Lie algebras by use of crystal base. This rule describes explicitly the decomposition of tensor products of given representations.

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Nakashima, T. Crystal base and a generalization of the Littlewood-Richardson rule for the classical Lie algebras. Commun.Math. Phys. 154, 215–243 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096996

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