On positivity in Hecke algebras (Q753955)

Let \(\mathcal H\) be the Hecke algebra associated with a Coxeter system \((W,R)\) (i.e. \(W\) is a Coxeter group and \(R\) its set of distinguished involutory generators). \textit{D. Kazhdan} and \textit{G. Lusztig} [Invent. Math. 53, 165--184 (1979; Zbl 0499.20035)] introduced new bases of \(\mathcal H\), with respect to which the structure constants (which are Laurent polynomials) satisfy remarkable positivity properties. These properties were explained by interpreting the structure constants geometrically as Poincaré series. The authors of this paper point out some further positivity properties for the structure constants of \(\mathcal H\), prove some of them formally from existing results, others geometrically using intersection complexes on flag varieties, and state the unproved cases as conjectures.