Degrees of the stretched Kostka quasi-polynomials

Abstract

We provide a type-uniform formula for the degree of the stretched Kostka quasi-polynomial $K_{\lambda ,\mu }(N)$ in all classical types, improving a previous result by McAllister in ${\mathfrak{sl}}_r(\mathbb{C})$. Our proof relies on a combinatorial model for the weight multiplicity by Berenstein and Zelevinsky.

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