The Hecke algebra for the hyperoctahedral group contains the Hecke algebra for the symmetric group as a subalgebra. Inducing the index representation of the subalgebra gives a Hecke algebra module, which splits multiplicity free. The corresponding zonal spherical functions are calculated in terms of -Krawtchouk polynomials using the quantised enveloping algebra for . The result covers a number of previously established interpretations of (-)Krawtchouk polynomials on the hyperoctahedral group, finite groups of Lie type, hypergroups and the quantum group.
We show that there is only one embedding of in at the prime , up to self-maps of . We also describe the effect of the group of self-equivalences of at the prime on this embedding and then show that the Friedlander exceptional isogeny composed with a suitable Adams map is an involution of whose homotopy fixed point set coincide with
We present some nonlinear characterizations of the automorphisms of the operator algebra and the function algebra by means of their spectrum preserving properties.
A rank two abelian group is in a natural way an -module. This induces an action of on its group cohomology for any trivial coefficient domain . In the present note we determine this module, including the question of when the universal coefficient theorem sequence splits.
is injective, for . We prove that the non-bijectivity of implies the existence of a quotient of containing as a proper direct factor. This gives a refined proof of a result of Evens, which asserts that is bijective if is.