# Composition Factors of Tensor Products of Symmetric Powers

## TL;DR

This paper determines the composition factors of the tensor product of two symmetric algebras of a natural module for general linear groups over fields of positive characteristic, extending previous results and providing explicit descriptions for low degrees.

## Contribution

It generalizes the tensor product theorem for symmetric powers and explicitly describes the divisibility index for polynomial modules of degree up to 3.

## Key findings

- Identifies composition factors of S(E)⊗S(E) for general linear groups.
- Extends tensor product theorems to positive characteristic.
- Provides explicit divisibility index formulas for low-degree modules.

## Abstract

We determine the composition factors of the tensor product $S(E)\otimes S(E)$ of two copies of the symmetric algebra of the natural module $E$ of a general linear group over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. Our main result may be regarded as a substantial generalisation of the tensor product theorem of Krop and Sullivan, on composition factors of $S(E)$. We earlier answered the question of which polynomially injective modules are infinitesimally injective in terms of the "divisibility index". We are now able to give an explicit description of the divisibility index for polynomial modules for general linear groups of degree at most $3$.