Span-intersection conjecture for upper and lower roots

Let WW be a finite Coxeter group of rank nn, let cc be a Coxeter element, and let (α1,,αk,β1,,βnk)(\alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_k,\beta_1,\ldots,\beta_{n-k}) be a cc-cluster, where the αi\alpha_i are its lower roots and the βi\beta_i are its upper roots. Let ϕc\phi_c be the recursively defined map on roots, and write βi\beta_i^{\perp} for the hyperplane orthogonal to βi\beta_i. Span-intersection conjecture. One has

SpanR(ϕc1(α1),,ϕc1(αk))=β1βnk.\operatorname{Span}_{\mathbb{R}}(\phi_c^{-1}(\alpha_1),\ldots,\phi_c^{-1}(\alpha_k))=\beta_1^{\perp}\cap\cdots\cap\beta_{n-k}^{\perp}.

The two spaces have the same dimension, and the required orthogonality has been verified computationally for all Coxeter elements in Coxeter groups of rank at most 77; proving the equality would remove the recursive map from the description of the associated noncrossing subspace.

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Nathan Reading and David E Speyer, “Cambrian fans”, arXiv:math/0606201 (2008).

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