The mirabolic Hecke algebra. (Q401942)

The Iwahori-Hecke algebra of the symmetric group is the convolution algebra of \(\text{GL}_n\)-invariant functions on the variety of pairs of complete flags over a finite field. In this paper the author considers the convolution on the space of triples of two flags and a vector. The resulting algebra \(R_n\), which he calls the mirabolic Hecke algebra, had originally been described by Solomon. The author gives a new presentation for \(R_n\) and shows that it is a quotient of a cyclotomic Hecke algebra as defined by Ariki and Koike. He recovers the results of Siegel about the representations of \(R_n\), and uses Jucys-Murphy elements to describe the center and to give a \(\mathfrak{gl}_\infty\)-structure on the Grothendieck group of the category of its representations. Finally, he also outlines a strategy towards a proof of the conjecture that the mirabolic Hecke algebra is a cellular algebra.