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On exterior powers of reflection representations, II

Representation Theory 2025-04-11 v2 Combinatorics Group Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

Let WW be a group endowed with a finite set SS of generators. A representation (V,ρ)(V,\rho) of WW is called a reflection representation of (W,S)(W,S) if ρ(s)\rho(s) is a (generalized) reflection on VV for each generator sSs \in S. In this paper, we prove that for any irreducible reflection representation VV, all the exterior powers dV\bigwedge ^d V, d=0,1,,dimVd = 0, 1, \dots, \dim V, are irreducible WW-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 WW-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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