The inductive Lehrer–Solomon conjecture for parabolic subgroups

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Let WW be a finite Coxeter group generated by SS, let L⊆SL\subseteq S, and let WLW_L be the corresponding parabolic subgroup. Let CL\mathcal{C}_L be the set of cuspidal conjugacy classes in WLW_L, with a fixed representative wC∈Cw_C\in C for each C∈CLC\in\mathcal{C}_L. Let NW(WL)N_W(W_L) be the normalizer of WLW_L, and let Φ~L\widetilde{\Phi}_L and Ψ~L\widetilde{\Psi}_L be the extensions to NW(WL)N_W(W_L) of the top-component characters ΦL\Phi_L and ΨL\Psi_L of CWL\mathbb{C}W_L and A(WL)A(W_L). Inductive Lehrer–Solomon conjecture. For each C∈CLC\in\mathcal{C}_L, there exist linear characters φ~wC\widetilde{\varphi}_{w_C} and ψ~wC\widetilde{\psi}_{w_C} of CW(wC)C_W(w_C) such that

Φ~L=∑C∈CLInd⁡CW(wC)NW(WL)φ~wC,\widetilde{\Phi}_L=\sum_{C\in\mathcal{C}_L}\operatorname{Ind}_{C_W(w_C)}^{N_W(W_L)}\widetilde{\varphi}_{w_C}, Ψ~L=∑C∈CLInd⁡CW(wC)NW(WL)ψ~wC,\widetilde{\Psi}_L=\sum_{C\in\mathcal{C}_L}\operatorname{Ind}_{C_W(w_C)}^{N_W(W_L)}\widetilde{\psi}_{w_C},

and ψ~wC=φ~wCϵSαL\widetilde{\psi}_{w_C}=\widetilde{\varphi}_{w_C}\epsilon_S\alpha_L for all C∈CLC\in\mathcal{C}_L, where ϵS\epsilon_S is the sign character and αL\alpha_L is the relevant determinant character. This relative conjecture is designed to imply the global decomposition conjecture by induction and transitivity of induction; the paper reports the method as established for low-rank finite Coxeter groups, while the general inductive statement remains open.

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J. Matthew Douglass, Goetz Pfeiffer and Gerhard Roehrle, “An Inductive Approach to Coxeter Arrangements and Solomon's Descent Algebra”, arXiv:1104.0551 (2011).

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