The affine hyperplane arrangement conjecture for left cells

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Let Φ+\Phi^+ be the set of positive roots, with short and long roots distinguished, and define

ν ⁣:Φ+→Z≥0\nu\colon \Phi^+\rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0}

by ν(α)=0\nu(\alpha)=0 if α\alpha is short and ν(α)=1\nu(\alpha)=1 if α\alpha is long. Let Hν\mathscr{H}_{\nu} be the affine hyperplane arrangement from the paper's defining equation, and let Rν\mathscr{R}_{\nu} be the connected components of V∖HνV\smallsetminus\mathscr{H}_{\nu}, where VV is the ambient real vector space. The affine arrangement conjecture. Any left cell of the affine Weyl group W~\widetilde{W} is a union of regions from Rν\mathscr{R}_{\nu}. This conjecture proposes a geometric description of left cells using a reduced affine hyperplane arrangement. The source presents this as a conjecture motivated by examples and proves related regularity results, but gives no resolution of this assertion in the stated generality.

References

Primary source

Paul E. Gunnells, “Automata and cells in affine Weyl groups”, arXiv:0807.2463 (2008).

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