Homotopies for the Generalized Bar Complex Associated to Certain 3-Rowed Weyl Modules

In Buchsbaum and Rota (1994 Buchsbaum , D. , Rota , G.-C. ( 1994 ). A new construction in homological algebra . Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 91 : 4115 – 4119 . [CSA] [CROSSREF] [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), the authors presented a generalized bar complex associated to certain 3-rowed Weyl modules and proved that this complex is in fact a resolution via an induction on the number of overlaps between the second and third rows and a fundamental exact sequence (Akin and Buchsbaum, 1985 Akin , K. , Buchsbaum , D. ( 1985 ). Characteristic-free representation theory of the general linear group . Adv. Math 58 ( 2 ): 149 – 200 . [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). In this article we study the structure of this resolution by constructing a splitting contracting homotopy for the complexes corresponding to certain shapes.