The diagonal residue product conjecture for affine Weyl groups

Let SS be one of the sets of nodes associated to an affine simply-laced type, let TT be its complementary set, let α0\alpha_0 be the affine root, and write α0S\alpha_0|_S and α0T\alpha_0|_T for its restrictions. Let R1(xS)R_1({\mathbf{x}}_S) denote the diagonal part of the residue, viewed as a power series in xSα0S{\mathbf{x}}_S^{\alpha_0|_S}, and let ht\operatorname{ht} denote height. For the listed affine types and sets SS, define λ\lambda by the table in the claim.

Diagonal residue product conjecture. We have

R1(xS)=m=0(1q(m+1)(ht(α0S)ht(α0T))x(2m+2)α0S)TR_1({\mathbf{x}}_S)=\prod_{m=0}^{\infty} (1-q^{(m+1)(\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_S)-\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_T))} {\mathbf{x}}^{(2m+2) \alpha_0|_S})^{-|T|} (1q(m+1)(ht(α0S)ht(α0T))+1x(2m+2)α0S)T\qquad\cdot(1-q^{(m+1)(\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_S)-\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_T))+1} {\mathbf{x}}^{(2m+2) \alpha_0|_S})^{-|T|} (1q(m+1/2)(ht(α0S)ht(α0T))x(2m+1)α0S)λ\qquad\cdot(1-q^{(m+1/2)(\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_S)-\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_T))} {\mathbf{x}}^{(2m+1) \alpha_0|_S})^{-\lambda} (1q(m+1/2)(ht(α0S)ht(α0T))+1x(2m+1)α0S)λ.\qquad\cdot(1-q^{(m+1/2)(\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_S)-\operatorname{ht}(\alpha_0|_T))+1} {\mathbf{x}}^{(2m+1) \alpha_0|_S})^{-\lambda}.

Here λ\lambda is 11 for A~n\widetilde{A}_n with nn odd and for D~n\widetilde{D}_n with nn odd; for D~n\widetilde{D}_n with nn even it is 00 when S={1,2,4,6,,n2,n,n+1}S=\{1,2,4,6,\ldots,n-2,n,n+1\} and 33 when S={3,5,7,,n1}S=\{3,5,7,\ldots,n-1\}; for E~6\widetilde{E}_6 it is 00 for S={1,3,5,7}S=\{1,3,5,7\} and 11 for S={2,4,6}S=\{2,4,6\}; for E~7\widetilde{E}_7 it is 00 for S={1,3,4,5,7}S=\{1,3,4,5,7\} and 22 for S={2,6,8}S=\{2,6,8\}; and for E~8\widetilde{E}_8 it is 11 for S={1,5,7,9}S=\{1,5,7,9\} and 00 for S={2,3,4,6,8}S=\{2,3,4,6,8\}.

The diagonal residue is expected to admit an infinite-product description in terms of function-field zeta factors, complementing the already computed part R0R_0. The source states this as a conjecture for the listed affine simply-laced types, but gives no resolution evidence.

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Primary source

Ian Whitehead, “Multiple Dirichlet Series for Affine Weyl Groups”, arXiv:1406.0573 (2014).

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