Exterior powers of the reflection representation in the cohomology of Springer fibres

Publication date 30 November 2010

Abstract: Let

H^{*} (c a l B_{e})

be the cohomology of the Springer fibre for the nilpotent element

e

in a simple Lie algebra

g

, on which the Weyl group

W

acts by the Springer representation. Let

L a m b d a^{i} V

denote the

i

th exterior power of the reflection representation of

W

. We determine the degrees in which

L a m b d a^{i} V

occurs in the graded representation

H^{*} (c a l B_{e})

, under the assumption that

e

is regular in a Levi subalgebra and satisfies a certain extra condition which holds automatically if

g

is of type A, B, or C. This partially verifies a conjecture of Lehrer--Shoji, and extends the results of Solomon in the

e = 0

case and Lehrer--Shoji in the

i = 1

case. The proof proceeds by showing that

(H^{*} (c a l B_{e}) o t i m e s L a m b d a^{*} V)^{W}

is a free exterior algebra on its subspace

(H^{*} (c a l B_{e}) o t i m e s V)^{W}

.

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