Weights of multipartitions and representations of Ariki-Koike algebras. (Q850066)

Let \(\mathfrak S_n\) denote the symmetric group on \(n\) letters and \(H_n=H_{n,q}(\mathfrak S_n)\) be the Iwahori-Hecke algebra corresponding to \(\mathfrak S_n\). Let \(G\) be the complex reflection group \(C_r\wr\mathfrak S_n\). Let \(\mathbb{F}\) be a field. Suppose that \(q,Q_1,\dots,Q_r\) are elements of \(\mathbb{F}\), with \(q\) non-zero. The Ariki-Koike algebra \(\mathcal H_n\) is defined to be the unital associative \(\mathbb{F}\)-algebra with presentation \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} (T_i+q)(T_i-1)&=0&\quad &(1\leq i\leq n-1),\\ (T_0-Q_1)\cdots(T_0-Q_r)&=0,&&\\ T_iT_j&=T_jT_i&\quad &(0\leq i,j\leq n-1,\;|i-j|>1),\\ T_iT_{i+1}T_i&=T_{i+1}T_iT_{i+1}&\quad &(1\leq i\leq n-2);\\ T_0T_1T_0T_1&=T_1T_0T_1T_0.&&\end{alignedat} \] Ariki gave a necessary and sufficient criterion in terms of the parameters \(q,Q_1,\dots,Q_r\) for \(\mathcal H_n\) to be semi-simple, and described the simple modules in this case. These are indexed by multipartitions of \(n\) with \(r\) components. The purpose of this paper is to provide further generalization of the combinatorics of \(H_n\) to that of \(\mathcal H_n\) by introducing a notion of `weight' for multipartitions. For each multipartition \(\lambda\) the author defines a non-negative integer called the weight of \(\lambda\). The author proves some basic properties of this weight function, and examines blocks of small weight.