The affine hyperplane arrangement conjecture for left cells

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

ν ⁣:Φ+Z0\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 VHνV\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.

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

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