Total positivity for loop groups. II: Chevalley generators

DOI10.1007/S00031-013-9208-YzbMATH Open1264.22017arXiv0906.0610OpenAlexW2151366503MaRDI QIDQ1949292FDOQ1949292

Pavlo Pylyavskyy, Thomas Lam

Publication date: 6 May 2013

Published in: Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is the second in a series of papers developing a theory of total positivity for loop groups. In this paper, we study infinite products of Chevalley generators. We show that the combinatorics of infinite reduced words underlies the theory, and develop the formalism of infinite sequences of braid moves, called a braid limit. We relate this to a partial order, called the limit weak order, on infinite reduced words. The limit semigroup generated by Chevalley generators has a transfinite structure. We prove a form of unique factorization for its elements, in effect reducing their study to infinite products which have the order structure of the natural numbers. For the latter infinite products, we show that one always has a factorization which matches an infinite Coxeter element. One of the technical tools we employ is a totally positive exchange lemma which appears to be of independent interest. This result states that the exchange lemma (in the context of Coxeter groups) is compatible with total positivity in the form of certain inequalities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0610

zbMATH Keywords

loop grouppartial ordertotal positivityexchange lemmaCoxeter elementChevalley generatorsbraid move

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67)

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