Almost special representations of Weyl groups

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAF015MaRDI QIDQ6881226zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors G. Lusztig

Publication date 17 December 2025

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/QMATH/HAAF015

zbMATH Keywords

almost special representationreductive groupstratumWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

Review text

Let \(W\) be a Weyl group and let \(\mathcal C\) be a family of irreducible representations over \(\mathbb{C}\) corresponding to a two-sided cell. The paper introduces a distinguished subset \(\mathcal A_{\mathcal C}\subset\mathcal C\), called the set of almost special representations, which contains the special representation and is shown to be in canonical bijection with the set of constructible representations attached to \(\mathcal C\).\N\NThe construction builds on the description of cells via finite groups associated to \(\mathcal C\) and on bases of spaces of class functions developed in earlier work of the author. For classical types, the correspondence is made explicit through a detailed combinatorial analysis involving families of intervals, tableaux and symbols. Exceptional types are treated by a case-by-case verification based on known tables.

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