Highest weight vectors in plethysms

Abstract

We realize the $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$-modules $S^k(S^m(\mathbb{C}^n))$ and $\Lambda^k(S^m(\mathbb{C}^n))$ as spaces of polynomial functions on $n\times k$ matrices. In the case $k=3$, we describe explicitly all the $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$-highest weight vectors which occur in $S^3(S^m(\mathbb{C}^n))$ and in $\Lambda^3(S^m(\mathbb{C}^n))$ respectively.