Lehrer–Solomon decomposition conjecture for Whitney homology

Let WW be a finite real reflection group acting on VV, let OX\mathcal{O}_X be a WW-orbit of intersection subspaces, and let WHOX{{\operatorname{WH}}}_{\mathcal{O}_X} be the corresponding Whitney-homology module. For each representative vv of a WW-conjugacy class contained in {wW:Fixw(V)OX}\{w\in W:\operatorname{Fix}_w(V)\in\mathcal{O}_X\}, let ZW(v)\operatorname{Z}_W(v) be its centralizer and let ξv:ZW(v)C×\xi_v:\operatorname{Z}_W(v)\to\mathbb{C}^{\times} be a degree-one character. Lehrer–Solomon conjecture. There is an isomorphism of WW-modules

WHOXvIndZW(v)Wξv.{{\operatorname{WH}}}_{\mathcal{O}_X}\cong\bigoplus_v\operatorname{Ind}_{\operatorname{Z}_W(v)}^W\xi_v.

The conjecture was verified in the source for symmetric groups of type An1A_{n-1} and for dihedral groups; it is presented as open in general.

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Victor Reiner, Franco Saliola and Volkmar Welker, “Spectra of Symmetrized Shuffling Operators”, arXiv:1102.2460 (2011).

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