The representation dimension of Hecke algebras and symmetric groups

We establish a lower bound for the representation dimension of all the classical Hecke algebras of types A, B and D. For all the type A algebras, and “most” of the algebras of types B and D, we also establish upper bounds. Moreover, we establish bounds for the representation dimension of group algebras of some symmetric groups.     

Classification of graded Hecke algebras for complex reflection groups

The graded Hecke algebra for a finite Weyl group is intimately related to the geometry of the Springer correspondence. A construction of Drinfeld produces an analogue of a graded Hecke algebra for any finite subgroup of GL(V). This paper classifies all the algebras obtained by applying Drinfeld's construction to complex reflection groups. By giving explicit (though nontrivial) isomorphisms, we show that the graded Hecke algebras for finite real reflection groups constructed by Lusztig are all isomorphic to algebras obtained by Drinfeld's construction. The classification shows that there exist algebras obtained from Drinfeld's construction which are not graded Hecke algebras as defined by Lusztig for real as well as complex reflection groups. Received: July 25, 2001     

Local Langlands correspondence for classical groups and affine Hecke algebras

Mathematische Zeitschrift - Using the results of Colette Moeglin on the representations of p-adic classical groups (based on methods of James Arthur) and its relation with representations of affine...     

Splitting fields for extended complex reflection groups and Hecke algebras

Finite complex reflection groups have the remarkable property that the character field k of their reflection representation is a splitting field, that is, every irreducible complex representation can be realized over k. Here we show that this statement remains true for extensions of finite complex reflection groups by elements in their normalizer. Also, we generalize the corresponding result for cyclotomic Hecke algebras to Hecke algebras attached to extended finite complex reflection groups.     

The Langlands classification for graded Hecke algebras

We establish the Langlands classification for graded Hecke algebras. The proof is analogous to the proof of the classification of highest weight modules for semisimple Lie algebras.

     

Functors for unitary representations of classical real groups and affine Hecke algebras

We define exact functors from categories of Harish–Chandra modules for certain real classical groups to finite-dimensional modules over an associated graded affine Hecke algebra with parameters. We then study some of the basic properties of these functors. In particular, we show that they map irreducible spherical representations to irreducible spherical representations and, moreover, that they preserve unitarity. In the case of split classical groups, we thus obtain a functorial inclusion of the real spherical unitary dual (with “real infinitesimal character”) into the corresponding p-adic spherical unitary dual.     

Hecke algebras from groups acting on trees and HNN extensions

We study Hecke algebras of groups acting on trees with respect to geometrically defined subgroups. In particular, we consider Hecke algebras of groups of automorphisms of locally finite trees with respect to vertex and edge stabilizers and the stabilizer of an end relative to a vertex stabilizer, assuming that the actions are sufficiently transitive. We focus on identifying the structure of the resulting Hecke algebras, give explicit multiplication tables of the canonical generators and determine whether the Hecke algebra has a universal $C^1$-completion. The paper unifies algebraic and analytic approaches by focusing on the common geometric thread. The results have implications for the general theory of totally disconnected locally compact groups.     

Continuous Hecke algebras

The theory of PBW properties of quadratic algebras, to which this paper aims to be a modest contribution, originates from the pioneering work of Drinfeld (see [Dr1]). In particular, as we learned after publication of [EG] (to the embarrassment of two of us!), symplectic reflection algebras, as well as PBW theorems for them, were discovered by Drinfeld in the classical paper [Dr2] 15 years before [EG] (namely, they are a special case of degenerate affine Hecke algebras for a finite group G introduced in [Dr2, Section 4]).     

Infinitesimal Hecke algebras

In this Note, we define infinitesimal analogues of the Iwahori–Hecke algebras associated with finite Coxeter groups. These are reductive Lie algebras for which we announce several decomposition results. These decompositions yield irreducibility results for representations of the corresponding (pure) generalized braid groups deduced from Hecke algebra representations through tensor constructions. To cite this article: I. Marin, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 337 (2003).     

On graded Cartan invariants of symmetric groups and Hecke algebras

We consider graded Cartan matrices of the symmetric groups and the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of type A at roots of unity. These matrices are \({\mathbb {Z}}[v,v^{-1}]\)-valued and may also be interpreted as Gram matrices of the Shapovalov form on sums of weight spaces of a basic representation of an affine quantum group. We present a conjecture predicting the invariant factors of these matrices and give evidence for the conjecture by proving its implications under a localization and certain specializations of the ring \({\mathbb {Z}}[v,v^{-1}]\). This proves and generalizes a conjecture of Ando-Suzuki-Yamada on the invariants of these matrices over \({\mathbb {Q}}[v,v^{-1}]\) and also generalizes the first author’s recent proof of the Külshammer-Olsson-Robinson conjecture over \({\mathbb {Z}}\).     

Types and Hecke algebras for principal series representations of split reductive p-adic groups

We construct types in the sense of Bushnell and Kutzko for principal series representations of split connected reductive p-adic groups (with mild restrictions on the residual characteristic) and describe the resulting Hecke algebras. We discuss their interpretation as Iwahori Hecke algebras of related reductive groups (in general disconnected). In addition, we describe how (parabolic) induction and (Jacquet) restriction functors and questions about square-integrability can be transferred to this context.     

Homological algebra for affine Hecke algebras

In this paper we study homological properties of modules over an affine Hecke algebra H. In particular we prove a comparison result for higher extensions of tempered modules when passing to the Schwartz algebra S, a certain topological completion of the affine Hecke algebra. The proof is self-contained and based on a direct construction of a bounded contraction of certain standard resolutions of H-modules.This construction applies for all positive parameters of the affine Hecke algebra. This is an important feature, since it is an ingredient to analyse how the irreducible discrete series representations of H arise in generic families over the parameter space of H. For irreducible non-simply laced affine Hecke algebras this will enable us to give a complete classification of the discrete series characters, for all positive parameters (we will report on this application in a separate article).     

The irreducible characters of the alternating Hecke algebras

This paper computes the irreducible characters of the alternating Hecke algebras, which are deformations of the group algebras of the alternating groups. More precisely, we compute the values of the irreducible characters of the semisimple alternating Hecke algebras on a set of elements indexed by minimal length conjugacy class representatives and we show that these character values determine the irreducible characters completely. As an application, we determine a splitting field for the alternating Hecke algebras in the semisimple case.     

Hecke group algebras as quotients of affine Hecke algebras at level 0

The Hecke group algebra of a finite Coxeter group , as introduced by the first and last authors, is obtained from by gluing appropriately its 0-Hecke algebra and its group algebra. In this paper, we give an equivalent alternative construction in the case when is the finite Weyl group associated to an affine Weyl group W. Namely, we prove that, for q not a root of unity of small order, is the natural quotient of the affine Hecke algebra H(W)(q) through its level 0 representation.The proof relies on the following core combinatorial result: at level 0 the 0-Hecke algebra H(W)(0) acts transitively on . Equivalently, in type A, a word written on a circle can be both sorted and antisorted by elementary bubble sort operators. We further show that the level 0 representation is a calibrated principal series representation M(t) for a suitable choice of character t, so that the quotient factors (non-trivially) through the principal central specialization. This explains in particular the similarities between the representation theory of the 0-Hecke algebra and that of the affine Hecke algebra H(W)(q) at this specialization.     

Type A Hecke algebras and related algebras

Let be the Hecke algebra of the symmetric group over a field K of characteristic and a primitive -th root of one in K. We show that an -module is projective if and only if its restrictions to any -parabolic subalgebra of is projective. Moreover, we give a new construction of blocks of -parabolic subalgebras, in terms of skew group algebras over local commutative algebras. Received: 30 June 2003     

Representations of affine Hecke algebras and based rings of affine Weyl groups

In this paper we show that the Deligne-Langlands-Lusztig classification of simple representations of an affine Hecke algebra remains valid if the parameter is not a root of the corresponding Poincaré polynomial. This verifies a conjecture of Lusztig proposed in 1989.

     

Dirac cohomology for graded affine Hecke algebras

We define an analogue of the Casimir element for a graded affine Hecke algebra $ \mathbb{H} $ , and then introduce an approximate square-root called the Dirac element. Using it, we define the Dirac cohomology H ^D (X) of an $ \mathbb{H} $ -module X, and show that H ^D (X) carries a representation of a canonical double cover of the Weyl group $ \widetilde{W} $ . Our main result shows that the $ \widetilde{W} $ -structure on the Dirac cohomology of an irreducible $ \mathbb{H} $ -module X determines the central character of X in a precise way. This can be interpreted as p-adic analogue of a conjecture of Vogan for Harish-Chandra modules. We also apply our results to the study of unitary representations of $ \mathbb{H} $ .