The multiplicative Horn problem : a positive formula for the product of conjugacy classes on the unitary group.

Quentin François
Université Paris Dauphine
Mathematics

We describe the multiplicative analogue of the celebrated Horn problem where we study the convolution product of two conjugacy classes of the unitary group ???? described by a probability distribution on the space of central measures which admits a density. Relating the convolution to the quantum Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and using recent results describing those coefficients, we give a positive formula for this density. In the same flavor as the hive model of Knutson and Tao, this formula is given in terms of a subtraction-free sum of volumes of explicit polytopes.


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