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Action of Weyl group on zero weight space

Representation Theory 2019-08-27 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

For any simple complex Lie group we classify irreducible finite-dimensional representations ρ\rho for which the longest element w0w_0 of the Weyl group acts nontrivially on the zero weight space. Among irreducible representations that have zero among their weights, w0w_0 acts by ±\pmId if and only if the highest weight of ρ\rho is a multiple of a fundamental weight, with a coefficient less than a bound that depends on the group and on the fundamental weight.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00347,
  title  = {Action of Weyl group on zero weight space},
  author = {Bruno Le Floch and Ilia Smilga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00347},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages. This version has two appendixes that did not appear in the published version. The first appendix contains the full list of the results of the computations done "by hand", and the second appendix contains the computer code used to do these computations