Littlewood-Richardson Coefficient, Springer Fibers and the Annihilator Varieties of Induced Representations

Abstract

For $G=GL(n,\mathbb{C})$ and a parabolic subgroup $P=LN$ with a two-block Levi subgroup $L=GL(n_1)\times GL(n_2)$, the space $G\cdot (\mathcal{O}+\mathfrak{n})$, where $\mathcal{O}$ is a nilpotent orbit of $\mathfrak{l}$, is a union of nilpotent orbits of $\mathfrak{g}$. In the first part of our main theorem, we use the geometric Sakate equivalence to prove that ${\mathcal{O}}^{\prime }\subset G\cdot (\mathcal{O}+\mathfrak{n})$ if and only if some Littlewood-Richardson coefficients do not vanish. The second part of our main theorem describes the geometry of the space $\mathcal{O}\cap \mathfrak{p}$, which is an important space to study for the Whittaker supports and annihilator varieties of representations of $G$.