Inequalities for Moment Cones of Finite-Dimensional Representations

Abstract

We give a general description of the moment cone associated with an arbitrary finite-dimensional unitary representation of a compact, connected Lie group in terms of finitely many linear inequalities. Our method is based on combining differential-geometric arguments with a variant of Ressayre's notion of a dominant pair. As applications, we obtain generalizations of Horn's inequalities to arbitrary representations, new inequalities for the one-body quantum marginal problem in physics, which concerns the asymptotic support of the Kronecker coefficients of the symmetric group, and a geometric interpretation of the Howe-Lee-Tan-Willenbring invariants for the tensor product algebra.