Traceless projection of mixed tensor products, and walled Brauer algebras

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Main Author: Goncharov, Yegor
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contents We describe a self-contained procedure for constructing the traceless projection of mixed tensor products (built out of a finite-dimensional complex vector space and its dual). The construction relies on the Schur-Weyl duality for the general linear group and regards rational representations thereof. By identifying the traceless subspace as a particular rational representation, the traceless projector which commutes with the group action can be understood as a uniquely defined idempotent in the centraliser algebra. We also identify and construct the analogue of the traceless projector in the walled Brauer algebras when the latter are semisimple. Among possible applications of the traceless projector, we show how the result applies to mixed tensor products built out of a finite-dimensional hermitian space and its complex conjugate.
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spellingShingle Traceless projection of mixed tensor products, and walled Brauer algebras
Goncharov, Yegor
Representation Theory
Mathematical Physics
We describe a self-contained procedure for constructing the traceless projection of mixed tensor products (built out of a finite-dimensional complex vector space and its dual). The construction relies on the Schur-Weyl duality for the general linear group and regards rational representations thereof. By identifying the traceless subspace as a particular rational representation, the traceless projector which commutes with the group action can be understood as a uniquely defined idempotent in the centraliser algebra. We also identify and construct the analogue of the traceless projector in the walled Brauer algebras when the latter are semisimple. Among possible applications of the traceless projector, we show how the result applies to mixed tensor products built out of a finite-dimensional hermitian space and its complex conjugate.
title Traceless projection of mixed tensor products, and walled Brauer algebras
topic Representation Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00303