On homomorphisms between Weyl modules: The case of a column transposition

Abstract

Let $G=GL_n(K)$ be the general linear group defined over an infinite field $K$ of positive characteristic $p$ and let $\Delta(\lambda)$ be the Weyl module of $G$ which corresponds to a partition $\lambda$. In this paper we classify all homomorphisms $\Delta(\lambda) \to \Delta(\mu)$ when $\lambda=(a,b,1^d)$ and $\mu=(a+d,b)$, $d>1$. In particular, we show that $Hom_G(\Delta(\lambda),\Delta(\mu))$ is nonzero if and only if $p=2$ and $a$ is even. In this case, we show that the dimension of the homomorphism space is equal to 1 and we provide an explicit generator whose description depends on binary expansions of various integers. We also show that these generators in general are not compositions of Carter-Payne homomorphisms.