Invariant theory for coincidental complex reflection groups (Q2031739)

The authors focuse on some patterns appearing in the Hilbert series of invariant spaces under reflection groups. Such a problem, or conjecture, was mentioned by \textit{V. F. Molchanov} [Funct. Anal. Appl. 26, No. 2, 1 (1992; Zbl 0795.20031); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 26, No. 2, 82--85 (1992)] under the action of a real reflection group acting on skew-symmetric tensors and dual tensors. Invariant theory of reflection groups have many pleasant properties and in this paper, complex reflection groups, acting on invariant differential forms, have been studied. Here, the space is \(S(V^*)\otimes\wedge V^* \wedge V)^W,\) which is also called \textit{mixed derivation differential forms}, where \(S\) denotes the symmetric algebra with usual grading. It has been shown that, for \textit{coincidental complex reflection groups}, the Hilbert series of the invariant mixed derivation differential forms can be written in a close form whose coefficients follow some combinatorial results. Moreover, such calculations have been performed for all irreducible complex reflection groups, and it has been showed that Molchanov's conjecture does not hold in general. There are many other numerological results, revealing out the connection between \(q\)-Catalan numbers, \(q\)-Kirkman numbers, \(q\)-Narayana numbers by using \(q\)-analogues of \(f\)-vectors and \(h\)-vectors from algebraic combinatorics. The paper also includes tables for the non-coincidental exceptional irreducible reflection groups, summarizing their Hilbert series under 4 classes.