Rational representations of Yangians associated with skew Young diagrams

Consider the general linear group GL_M over the complex field. The irreducible rational representations of the group GL_M can be labeled by the pairs of partitions and such that the total number of non-zero parts of and does not exceed M. Let EQ4 be the irreducible representation corresponding to such a pair. Regard the direct product as a subgroup of GL_N+M . Take any irreducible rational representation of GL_N+M. The vector space comes with a natural action of the group GL_N. Put n=. For any pair of standard Young tableaux of skew shapes respectively, we give a realization of as a subspace in the tensor product of n copies of defining representation of GL_N, and of ñ copies of the contragredient representation ()^*. This subspace is determined as the image of a certain linear operator on W_nñn. We introduce this operator by an explicit multiplicative formula. When M=0 and is an irreducible representation of GL_N, we recover the known realization of as a certain subspace in the space of all traceless tensors in . Then the operator may be regarded as the rational analogue of the Young symmetrizer, corresponding to the tableau of shape . Even when M=0, our formula for is new. Our results are applications of the representation theory of the Yangian of the Lie algebra . In particular, is an intertwining operator between certain representations of the algebra on . We also introduce the notion of a rational representation of the Yangian . As a representation of , the image of is rational and irreducible.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 17B37, 20C30, 22E46, 81R50in final form: 10 July 2003