Weyl Groups and the Modified Kostant Game
Combinatorics
2026-05-13 v1
Abstract
This paper presents a generalization of the Kostant game, a combinatorial framework originally for generating positive roots in Lie algebras. By introducing an arbitrary multi-vertex modification, we prove that the resulting game configurations naturally biject with the minimal length representatives of parabolic quotients W/W_J. This yields a dynamical and algorithmic perspective on reduced words. Finally, we apply this framework to derive a novel root counting identity, formalize the Coxeter-theoretic foundation for combinatorial approaches to the Mukai conjecture, establish the regularity of reduced word languages via finite state automata, and dynamically construct Standard Young Tableaux.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.11449,
title = {Weyl Groups and the Modified Kostant Game},
author = {Alexander Caviedes Castro and Juan Sebastián Cortés-Cruz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.11449},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
24 pages, 10 figures