Ad-nilpotent ideals and the Shi arrangement

Abstract: We extend the Shi bijection from the Borel subalgebra case to parabolic subalgebras. In the process, the

I

-deleted Shi arrangement

e x t t t S h i (I)

naturally emerges. This arrangement interpolates between the Coxeter arrangement

e x t t t C o x

and the Shi arrangement

e x t t t S h i

, and breaks the symmetry of

e x t t t S h i

in a certain symmetrical way. Among other things, we determine the characteristic polynomial

c h i (e x t t t S h i (I), t)

of

e x t t t S h i (I)

explicitly for

A_{n - 1}

and

C_{n}

. More generally, let

e x t t t S h i (G)

be an arbitrary arrangement between

e x t t t C o x

and

e x t t t S h i

. Armstrong and Rhoades recently gave a formula for

c h i (e x t t t S h i (G), t)

for

A_{n - 1}

. Inspired by their result, we obtain formulae for

c h i (e x t t t S h i (G), t)

for

B_{n}

,

C_{n}

and

D_{n}

.

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