Schur-functor vanishing at the idempotent level #
Deligne's Schur functor S_μ(X) (Catégories tensorielles, 1.4) is
the multiplicity space of the shape μ in the tensor power
X ^ ⊗ μ.card; its vanishing is equivalent to the vanishing of the
μ-isotypic summand, which is the image of the central idempotent
e μ acting through permAlg. This module phrases the condition
on the idempotent's action — no image objects are needed — and
proves Deligne's upward closure (Catégories tensorielles, 1.7) from
the Schur package alone: branching puts a nonzero sandwich
e μ · (e λ ⊗ 1) · e μ in the block of μ, block_faithful
turns nonvanishing of e μ's action into injectivity on that
block, and permAlg_compat carries the vanishing of e λ's
action up the standard embedding.
Schur vanishing: the shape μ kills X when the central
idempotent of its block acts as zero on the μ.card-th tensor
power of X. This is the vanishing of the μ-isotypic summand
of X ^ ⊗ μ.card, i.e. of Deligne's Schur functor S_μ(X).
Equations
- RS.SchurKilled P X μ = ((RS.permAlg X μ.card) (P.e μ) = 0)
Instances For
Upward closure of Schur vanishing (Catégories
tensorielles, 1.7): if the shape λ kills X then so does every
shape containing it.