The Steinberg torus of a Weyl group as a module over the Coxeter complex

DOI10.1007/S10801-015-0620-3MaRDI QIDQ902958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcelo Aguiar, T. Kyle Petersen

Publication date 4 January 2016

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4230

zbMATH Keywords

affine descentCoxeter complexcrystallographic root systemhyperplane arrangementSolomon's descent algebraSteinberg torusTits productWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Root systems (17B22) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Abstract: Associated to each irreducible crystallographic root system $Phi$, there is a certain cell complex structure on the torus obtained as the quotient of the ambient space by the coroot lattice of $Phi$. This is the Steinberg torus. A main goal of this paper is to exhibit a module structure on (the set of faces of) this complex over the (set of faces of the) Coxeter complex of $Phi$. The latter is a monoid under the Tits product of faces. The module structure is obtained from geometric considerations involving affine hyperplane arrangements. As a consequence, a module structure is obtained on the space spanned by affine descent classes of a Weyl group, over the space spanned by ordinary descent classes. The latter constitute a subalgebra of the group algebra, the classical descent algebra of Solomon. We provide combinatorial models for the module of faces when $Phi$ is of type $A$ or $C$.

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