Atomic length on Weyl groups

Authors Nathan Chapelier-Laget, Thomas Gerber

Publication date 22 November 2022

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Root systems (17B22) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67)

Abstract: We define a new statistic on Weyl groups called the atomic length and investigate its combinatorial and representation-theoretic properties. In finite types, we show a number of properties of the atomic length which are reminiscent of the properties of the usual length. Moreover, we prove that, with the exception of rank two, this statistic describes an interval. In affine types, our results shed some light on classical enumeration problems, such as the celebrated Granville-Ono theorem on the existence of core partitions, by relating the atomic length to the theory of crystals.

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