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RoCK blocks, wreath products and KLR algebras

Representation Theory 2016-10-17 v2

Abstract

We consider RoCK (or Rouquier) blocks of symmetric groups and Hecke algebras at roots of unity. We prove a conjecture of Turner asserting that a certain idempotent truncation of a RoCK block of weight dd of a symmetric group Sn\mathfrak S_n defined over a field FF of characteristic ee is Morita equivalent to the principal block of the wreath product SeSd\mathfrak S_e \wr \mathfrak S_d. This generalises a theorem of Chuang and Kessar that applies to RoCK blocks with abelian defect groups. Our proof relies crucially on an isomorphism between FSnF\mathfrak S_n and a cyclotomic Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebra, and the Morita equivalence we produce is that of graded algebras. We also prove the analogous result for an Iwahori-Hecke algebra at a root of unity defined over an arbitrary field.

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@article{arxiv.1511.08004,
  title  = {RoCK blocks, wreath products and KLR algebras},
  author = {Anton Evseev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08004},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Version 2: minor revisions and corrections. To appear in Math. Annalen