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On Lusztig's asymptotic Hecke algebra for $\mathrm{SL}_2$

Representation Theory 2021-12-01 v4

Abstract

Let HH be the Iwahori-Hecke algebra and let JJ be Lusztig's asymptotic Hecke algebra, both specialized to type A~1\tilde{A}_1. For SL2\mathrm{SL}_2, when the parameter qq is specialized to a prime power, Braverman and Kazhdan showed recently that a completion of HH has codimension two as a subalgebra of a completion of JJ, and described a basis for the quotient in spectral terms. In this note we write these functions explicitly in terms of the basis {tw}\{t_w\} of JJ, and further invert the canonical isomorphism between the completions of HH and JJ, obtaining explicit formulas for the each basis element twt_w in terms of the basis {Tw}\{T_w\} of HH. We conjecture some properties of this expansion for more general groups. We conclude by using our formulas to prove that JJ acts on the Schwartz space of the basic affine space of SL2\mathrm{SL}_2, and produce some formulas for this action.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02015,
  title  = {On Lusztig's asymptotic Hecke algebra for $\mathrm{SL}_2$},
  author = {Stefan Dawydiak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02015},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages. In v4, updated to match published version