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Defining several independent Weyl Character Rings

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I have the following problem. I want to define expression which contains elements of several Weyl Character Rings. The problem comes from physics. I have expression for theory with several symmetries, which can be of the same or different groups which involves characters of these groups representations. Let's take a simplest example of such expression

x=χR1(U)χR2(V)

where UG1, VG2 are matrices in groups G1 and G2 and R1,2 are corresponding representations. Let's say I want to find x2 (or any other power) expanded in terms of irreps. If G1G2 I can write the following code that will work

G1 = WeylCharacterRing(['A',2], base_ring=QQ, style="coroots")
G2 = WeylCharacterRing(['A',1], base_ring=G1, style="coroots")
fund1 = G1(G1.fundamental_weights()[1]); 
fund2 = G2(G2.fundamental_weights()[1]); 
x  = fund1*fund2
x**2

which gives me what I want

  (A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A1(0) + (A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A1(2)

Here for simplicity I took SU(2) and SU(3) groups and fundamental representations for both of them. Now if G1=G2 (for example A2 root system in both cases) it also works but result is not very readable now since I can not understand which representation belongs to one group or another. For example

G1 = WeylCharacterRing(['A',2], base_ring=QQ, style="coroots")
G2 = WeylCharacterRing(['A',2], base_ring=G1, style="coroots")
fund1 = G1(G1.fundamental_weights()[1]); 
fund2 = G2(G2.fundamental_weights()[1]); 
ad1 = G1.adjoint_representation()
ad2 = G2.adjoint_representation()
x = fund1*ad2
x**2

gives me back

(A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A2(0,0) + (A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A2(0,3) + (2*A2(0,1)+2*A2(2,0))*A2(1,1) + (A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A2(3,0) + (A2(0,1)+A2(2,0))*A2(2,2)

which is hard to read. Is there a simple way to keep track which of the expressions belongs to one group or another?

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It's hard to read but not impossible: in each term the first factor in parentheses is in the base ring G1, and the second factor is in G2.

rburing gravatar imagerburing ( 0 years ago )

@rburing Yes sure it is possible to read. The problem that real expressions I work with can have more groups and will be more massive in general. It is still possible to read them since order of factors is always the same but I was wondering if there is a smart way to simplify readability.

Anton Nedelin gravatar imageAnton Nedelin ( 0 years ago )

@FrédéricC Thanks a lot, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Anton Nedelin gravatar imageAnton Nedelin ( 0 years ago )

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you can use the prefix as follows

sage: A=WeylCharacterRing(['A',2], base_ring=QQ, style="coroots", prefix="🍌")
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