Global branching laws by global Okounkov bodies

Let $G'$ be a complex semisimple group, and let $G \subseteq G'$ be a semisimple subgroup. We show that the branching cone of the pair $(G, G')$, which (asymptotically) parametrizes all pairs $(W, V)$ of irreducible finite-dimensional $G$-representations $W$ which occur as subrepresentations of a finite-dimensional irreducible $G'$-representation $V$, can be identified with the pseudo-effective cone, \overline{\mbox{Eff}}(Y), of some GIT quotient $Y$ of the flag variety of the group $G \times G'$. Moreover, we prove that the quotient $Y$ is a Mori dream space. As a consequence, the global Okounkov body $\Delta(Y)$ of $Y$, with respect to some admissible flag of subvarieties of $Y$, is fibred over the branching cone of $(G, G')$, and the fibre $\Delta(Y)_{(W, V)}$ over a point $(W, V)$ carries information about (the asymptotics of) the multiplicity of $W$ in $V$. Using the global Okounkov body $\Delta(Y)$, we easily derive a multi-dimensional generalization of Okounkov's result about the log-concavity of asymptotic multiplicities

Okounkov bodies for ample line bundles

Let $\mathscr{L} \rightarrow X$ be an ample line bundle over a nonsingular complex projective variety $X$. We construct an admissable flag $X_0 \subseteq X_1 \subseteq...\subseteq X_n=X$ of subvarieties for which the associated Okounkov body for $\mathscr{L}$ is a rational polytope

Okounkov bodies for ample line bundles with applications to multiplicities for group representations

Let $\mathscr{L} \rightarrow X$ be an ample line bundle over a complex normal projective variety $X$. We construct a flag $X_0 \subseteq X_1 \subseteq \cdots \subseteq X_n=X$ of subvarieties for which the associated Okounkov body for $\mathscr{L}$ is a rational polytope. In the case when $X$ is a homogeneous surface, and the pseudoeffective cone of $X$ is rational polyhedral, we also show that the global Okounkov body is a rational polyhedral cone if the flag of subvarieties is suitably chosen. Finally, we provide an application to the asymptotic study of group representations.Comment: supersedes the preprint arXiv:1007.191

Global Okounkov bodies for Bott-Samelson varieties

We use the theory of Mori dream spaces to prove that the global Okounkov body of a Bott-Samelson variety with respect to a natural flag of subvarieties is rational polyhedral. In fact, we prove more generally that this holds for any Mori dream space which admits a flag of Mori dream spaces satisfying a certain regularity condition. As a corollary, Okounkov bodies of effective line bundles over Schubert varieties are shown to be rational polyhedral. In particular, it follows that the global Okounkov body of a flag variety $G/B$ is rational polyhedral. As an application we show that the asymptotic behaviour of dimensions of weight spaces in section spaces of line bundles is given by the counting of lattice points in polytopes.Comment: A new and simpler definition of a good flag is introduced, and Bott-Samelson varieties are shown to admit such flag