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The modular Weyl-Kac character formula

Representation Theory 2023-01-20 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We classify and explicitly construct the irreducible graded representations of anti-spherical Hecke categories which are concentrated in one degree. Each of these homogeneous representations is one-dimensional and can be cohomologically constructed via a BGG resolution involving every (infinite dimensional) standard representation of the category. We hence determine the complete first row of the inverse parabolic pp-Kazhdan--Lusztig matrix for an arbitrary Coxeter group and an arbitrary parabolic subgroup. This generalises the Weyl--Kac character formula to all Coxeter systems (and their parabolics) and proves that this generalised formula is rigid with respect to base change to an arbitrary field.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13082,
  title  = {The modular Weyl-Kac character formula},
  author = {Chris Bowman and Amit Hazi and Emily Norton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13082},
  year   = {2023}
}
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