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2012

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First, we develop a result using multilinear algebra to prove, in an elementary way, a useful identity between representations of sp(4,C), which involves writing any irreducible representation as a formal combination of tensor products of symmetric powers of the standard representation. Once establishing this identity, we employ a combinatorial argument along with this identity to explicitly determine the weight multiplicities of any irreducible representation of sp(4,C). While there is already a closed formula for these multiplicities, our approach is more basic and more easily accessible. After determining these multiplicities, we use them to create a method for computing the L- and ε-factors of Sp(4). Finally, we provide an approach to producing any irreducible representation of any rank m symplectic Lie algebra as a formal combination of tensor products of symmetric powers of the standard representation, including a general formula given an appropriately large highest weight.

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Tensor algebra, Lie algebras, Combinatorial analysis, Multilinear algebra

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