How to compute the Frobenius-Schur indicator of a unipotent character of a finite Coxeter system.

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.02.023zbMATH Open1283.20046arXiv1202.1311OpenAlexW2035338615MaRDI QIDQ390744FDOQ390744

Authors: Eric Marberg 

Publication date: 8 January 2014

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For each finite, irreducible Coxeter system $(W,S)$, Lusztig has associated a set of "unipotent characters" $Uch(W)$. There is also a notion of a "Fourier transform" on the space of functions $Uch(W)oRR$, due to Lusztig for Weyl groups and to Brou'e, Lusztig, and Malle in the remaining cases. This paper concerns a certain $W$-representation $varrh{o}_W$ in the vector space generated by the involutions of $W$. Our main result is to show that the irreducible multiplicities of $varrh{o}_W$ are given by the Fourier transform of a unique function $epsilon:Uch(W)o-1,0,1$, which for various reasons serves naturally as a heuristic definition of the Frobenius-Schur indicator on $Uch(W)$. The formula we obtain for $epsilon$ extends prior work of Casselman, Kottwitz, Lusztig, and Vogan addressing the case in which $W$ is a Weyl group. We include in addition a succinct description of the irreducible decomposition of $varrh{o}_W$ derived by Kottwitz when $(W,S)$ is classical, and prove that $varrh{o}_W$ defines a Gelfand model if and only if $(W,S)$ has type $A_n$, $H_3$, or $I_2(m)$ with $m$ odd. We show finally that a conjecture of Kottwitz connecting the decomposition of $varrh{o}_W$ to the left cells of $W$ holds in all non-crystallographic types, and observe that a weaker form of Kottwitz's conjecture holds in general. In giving these results, we carefully survey the construction and notable properties of the set $Uch(W)$ and its attached Fourier transform.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1311

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zbMATH Keywords

Fourier transformCoxeter groupsCoxeter systemsfinite reductive groupsWeyl groupsunipotent charactersFrobenius-Schur indicatorsGelfand modelsfusion dataleft cells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05)

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