The modular Weyl-Kac character formula (Q2098215)

C. Bowman, A. Hazi, and E. Norton construct the irreducible graded representations of anti-spherical Hecke categories which are concentrated in one degree. Each of these homogeneous representations is one-dimensional and can be cohomologically constructed via a BGG resolution involving every (infinite dimensional) standard representation of the category (Theorem A, page 2208). They determine the complete first row of the inverse parabolic \(p\)-Kazhdan-Lusztig matrix for an arbitrary Coxeter group and an arbitrary parabolic subgroup, generalizing the Weyl-Kac character formula to all Coxeter systems (and their parabolics) and proving that this generalized formula is rigid with respect to base change to fields of arbitrary characteristic (Theorem B, page 2208). Thus, the authors calculate the largest family of \(p\)-Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials to date.