The character table of the Hecke algebra \({\mathcal H}(GL_{2n}(\mathbb{F}_ q),Sp_{2n}(\mathbb{F}_ q))\) (Q1812869): Difference between revisions

We show how to calulate the character table of the Hecke algebra in the title. In particular, we shall see that it is ``almost'' identical with the table obtained by just replacing \(q\) by \(q^ 2\) in the (suitably normalized) character table of the finite general linear group \(GL_ n(\mathbb{F}_ q)\). In Section 1, we recall some known results on conjugate classes and irreducible characters of finite general linear groups. In Section 2, we review general results on commutative Hecke algebras and Klyachko's results on the Hecke algebra \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\). We also prove an important result on the sizes of \(K\)-double cosets in \(G\). In Section 3, we define the basic function \(\chi^{\mathcal H}_ T[\theta]\) on \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\) for an arbitrary pair \((T,\theta)\) of a maximal torus \(T\) of \(GL_ n(\mathbb{F}_ q)\) and a character \(\theta\) of \(T\), and prove that \(\chi^{\mathcal H}_ T[\theta]\) is a character of \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\) if \(\theta\) is ``in general position''. In Section 4, we give the irreducible decomposition of the induced character \((1_ K)^ G\). The result shows that there exists a nice one-to-one correspondence between the irreducible characters of \(GL_ n(\mathbb{F}_ q)\) and those of \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\). In Section 5, we prove a formula expressing the values of basic functions in terms of Green polynomials of \(GL_ n(\mathbb{F}_ q)\). In Section 6, we give a simple algorithm by which one can write down the characters of \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\) as explicit linear combinations of basic functions. This, combined with the above-mentioned result in Section 5, enables us to calculate the character table of \({\mathcal H}(G,K)\) explicitly.