English

Weight polytopes and saturation of Demazure characters

Representation Theory 2023-02-10 v3 Algebraic Geometry Combinatorics

Abstract

For GG a reductive group and TBT\subset B a maximal torus and Borel subgroup, Demazure modules are certain BB-submodules, indexed by elements of the Weyl group, of the finite irreducible representations of GG. In order to describe the TT-weight spaces that appear in a Demazure module, we study the convex hull of these weights - the Demazure polytope. We characterize these polytopes both by vertices and by inequalities, and we use these results to prove that Demazure characters are saturated, in the case that GG is simple of classical Lie type. Specializing to G=GLnG=GL_n, we recover results of Fink, M\'esz\'aros, and St. Dizier, and separately Fan and Guo, on key polynomials, originally conjectured by Monical, Tokcan, and Yong.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.05405,
  title  = {Weight polytopes and saturation of Demazure characters},
  author = {Marc Besson and Sam Jeralds and Joshua Kiers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.05405},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

32 pages, 6 figures. v2 added references and relation to MV polytopes, and simplified proofs in section 5. v3 minor expository edits, and corrections to the relation to the geometry of MV cycles