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I'm looking at the induction of representations of a parabolic subgroup of $Sp_4$ into the whole group. There are some cases that the result is reducible, and I need to compute the dimensions of the subrepresentations. So I was wondering if there is a general procedure to compute the dimensions, like there is a pretty general procedure to check irreducibility - i.e. Mackey's criterion (which is how I found the cases that are reducible).

My question: if an induced representation is reducible, is there a relatively general method to compute the dimensions of the subrepresentations?

I should be able to do my specific example by reading the existing literature on $Sp_4$, but the articles I have read so far (B. Srinivasan, T. A. Springer) don't say how they figured out the dimensions.

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Just a small precision : you're looking at complex representations of $\textrm{Sp}_4(k)$ with $k$ a finite field, right ? – Joel Cohen Jun 6 '11 at 23:49
yes indeed i am – simplequestions Jun 7 '11 at 6:21

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