Generalized nil-Coxeter algebras over discrete complex reflection groups

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Abstract: We define and study generalized nil-Coxeter algebras associated to Coxeter groups. Motivated by a question of Coxeter (1957), we construct the first examples of such finite-dimensional algebras that are not the 'usual' nil-Coxeter algebras: a novel 2-parameter type A family that we call NCA(n,d). We explore several combinatorial properties of NCA(n,d), including its Coxeter word basis, length function, and Hilbert-Poincare series, and show that the corresponding generalized Coxeter group is not a flat deformation of NCA(n,d). These algebras yield symmetric semigroup module categories that are necessarily not monoidal; we write down their Tannaka-Krein duality. Further motivated by the Broue-Malle-Rouquier (BMR) freeness conjecture [J. reine angew. math. 1998], we define generalized nil-Coxeter algebras over all discrete real or complex reflection groups W, finite or infinite. We provide a complete classification of all such algebras that are finite-dimensional. Remarkably, these turn out to be either the usual nil-Coxeter algebras, or the algebras NCA(n,d). This proves as a special case - and strengthens - the lack of equidimensional nil-Coxeter analogues for finite complex reflection groups. In particular, generic Hecke algebras are not flat deformations of NCW for W complex.




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