The number of simple modules for the Hecke algebras of type \(G(r,p,n)\) (with an appendix by Xiaoyi Cui). (Q834837)

The aim of the paper is to obtain a parametrization of the irreducible modules of the cyclotomic Hecke algebra \(\mathcal H_K(r,p,n)\) of type \(G(r,p,n)\) where \(n\geq 3\) and where the ground field \(K\) is of characteristic coprime to \(p\). The condition \(n\geq 3\) is important for the methods used in the paper since it ensures that \(\mathcal H_K(r,p,n)\) is a subalgebra of the Hecke algebra \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\) of type \(G(r,1,n)\), also known as the Ariki-Koike algebra. The cyclotomic Hecke algebras were introduced by Ariki-Koike and Broué-Malle and are conjecturally related to the modular representation theory of finite groups of Lie type in non-describing characteristic. This classification result obtained in the paper generalizes earlier classification results, for example by Genet-Jacon for \(K=\mathbb{C}\) and by the author for \(\mathcal H_K(p,p,n)\). A starting point of the paper is to establish a connection to the well understood representation theory of \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\). This is done in Proposition 2.4 that already occurs in other papers. (The appendix fixes a gap in the literature at this point.) According to it, all simple \(\mathcal H_K(r,p,n)\)-modules are of the form \(D^{\tau^i}\) where \(D\) is a simple submodule of the restriction to \(\mathcal H_K(r,p,n)\) of a simple \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\)-module \(\widetilde D\), and where \(D^{\tau^i}\) denotes the \(i\)-th twist with respect to an easily defined automorphism \(\tau\) of \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\). This reduces the classification problem to understanding the bijection \(h\) on the Fock space, induced by another closely related automorphism \(\sigma\) of \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\). The author achieves this through a combinatorial description of \(h\), reminiscent of Kleschev's description of the Mullineux bijection. One of the ingredients is here Jacon's parameterization of simple \(\mathcal H_K(r,n)\)-modules via FLOTW multipartitions. In the last section of the paper an explicit formula for the number of simple modules is given.