On exterior powers of reflection representations, II
Abstract
Let be a group endowed with a finite set of generators. A representation of is called a reflection representation of if is a (generalized) reflection on for each generator . In this paper, we prove that for any irreducible reflection representation , all the exterior powers , , are irreducible -modules, and they are non-isomorphic to each other. This extends a theorem of R. Steinberg which is stated for Euclidean reflection groups. Moreover, we prove that the exterior powers (except for the 0th and the highest power) of two non-isomorphic reflection representations always give non-isomorphic -modules. This allows us to construct numerous pairwise non-isomorphic irreducible representations for such groups, especially for Coxeter groups.
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@article{arxiv.2401.08215,
title = {On exterior powers of reflection representations, II},
author = {Hongsheng Hu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.08215},
year = {2025}
}
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22 pages. Published version. Comments welcome!