Irreducible projective modules of the Hecke algebras of a finite Coxeter group (Q581671): Difference between revisions

Let \(W\) be a finite Coxeter group, \(t\) an indeterminate, and \(q=t^ 2\). Let \(H(W,q)\) be the generic Hecke algebra over \({\mathbb C}(t)\) associated with \(W\). The author studies the irreducible projective modules of the specialized Hecke algebra \(H(W,\zeta^ 2)\) where \(\zeta\in {\mathbb C}\). It was shown by \textit{A. Gyoja} [J. Algebra 86, 422--483 (1984; Zbl 0537.20020)] that any irreducible representation of \(H(W,q)\) arises from a \(W\)-graph in the sense of \textit{B. Kazhdan} and \textit{G. Lusztig} [Invent. Math. 53, 165--184 (1979; Zbl 0499.20035)]. Let \(\lambda (W)\) be a complete set of \(W\)-graphs corresponding to a set of representatives of the isomorphism classes of irreducible representations of \(H(W,q)\). For \(\lambda\in \Lambda (W)\) let \(\pi^ t_{\lambda}\) be the corresponding representation of \(H(W,q)\), and let \(d_{\lambda}(q)\) be the generic degree polynomial associated with \(\pi^ t_{\lambda}\). Let \(\pi^{\zeta}_{\lambda}\) be the (not necessarily irreducible) representation of the \(\mathbb C\)-algebra \(H(W,\zeta^ 2)\) obtained from \(\pi^ t_{\lambda}\) by specializing \(t\) to \(\zeta\in \mathbb C\). The author shows (Theorem 3.1) that if \(\zeta\) is not zero then a complete set of representatives for the isomorphism classes of irreducible projective \(H(W,\zeta^ 2)\)-modules is given by \(\pi^{\zeta}_{\lambda}\), where \(\lambda\) runs over elements of \(\Lambda (W)\) such that \(\lim_{q\to \zeta^ 2}P_ W(q)/d_{\lambda}(q)\) is not zero. (Here \(P_ W(q)\) is the Poincaré polynomial of \(W\).) As a corollary he recovers a theorem of \textit{A. Gyoja} and \textit{K. Uno} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 41, 75--79 (1989; Zbl 0647.20038)] that \(H(W,\zeta^ 2)\) is semisimple if and only if \(P_ W(\zeta^ 2)\) is not zero. Finally, he also computes the irreducible projective representations of \(H(W,0)\); these are one-dimensional.