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Star reducible Coxeter groups

Quantum Algebra 2007-05-23 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We define ``star reducible'' Coxeter groups to be those Coxeter groups for which every fully commutative element (in the sense of Stembridge) is equivalent to a product of commuting generators by a sequence of length-decreasing star operations (in the sense of Lusztig). We show that the Kazhdan--Lusztig bases of these groups have a nice projection property to the Temperley--Lieb type quotient, and furthermore that the images of the basis elements CwC'_w (for fully commutative ww) in the quotient have structure constants in Z0[v,v1]{\Bbb Z}^{\geq 0}[v, v^{-1}]. We also classify the star reducible Coxeter groups and show that they form nine infinite families (types AnA_n, BnB_n, DnD_n, EnE_n, FnF_n, HnH_n, affine An1A_{n-1} for nn odd, affine Cn1C_{n-1} for nn even, and the case where the Coxeter graph is complete), with two exceptional cases (of ranks 6 and 7). This paper is the sequel to math.QA/0509362.

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@article{arxiv.math/0509363,
  title  = {Star reducible Coxeter groups},
  author = {R. M. Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0509363},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Approximately 41 pages, AMSTeX, 4 figures. Revised in light of referee comments. To appear in the Glasgow Mathematical Journal