Half the sum of positive roots, the Coxeter element, and a theorem of Kostant

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2014-0052zbMATH Open1330.22018arXiv1402.5504OpenAlexW2963448334MaRDI QIDQ901404FDOQ901404

Authors: Dipendra Prasad 

Publication date: 12 January 2016

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Interchanging character and co-character groups of a torus $T$ over a field $k$ introduces a contravariant functor $TightarrowwidehatT$. Interpreting $ho:Tightarrow{mathbbC}^{i}mes$, half the sum of positive roots for $T$ a maximal torus in a simply connected semi-simple group $G$ (over $mathbbC$) using this duality, we get a co-character $widehatho:{mathbbC}^{i}mesightarrowwidehatT$ whose value at $e^{frac2piih}$ ($h$ the Coxeter number) is the Coxeter conjugacy class of the dual group $widehatG$. This point of view gives a rather transparent proof of a theorem of Kostant on the character values of irreducible finite dimensional representations of $G$ at the Coxeter element: the proof amounting to the fact that in $widehat{G}_{sc}$, the simply connected cover of $widehatG$, there is a unique regular conjugacy class whose image in $widehatG$ has order $h$ (which is the Coxeter conjugacy class).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5504

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zbMATH Keywords

representationsWeyl character formulaCoxeter elementKostantthe dual group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45)

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