Reduction rules for Demazure modules

Abstract

For $G$ a complex reductive group and $B \subseteq G$ a Borel subgroup, we provide a reduction rule for certain weight multiplicities in Demazure modules $V_\lambda^w$: given a weight $\mu$ on a face of the associated weight polytope $P_\lambda^w$, we reduce the computation of the dimension of the weight space $V_\lambda^w(\mu)$ to a similar problem of computing the weight space dimension for a Demazure module of a Levi subgroup of $G$.