Fully commutative elements in the Weyl and affine Weyl groups.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Fully commutative elements in the Weyl and affine Weyl groups.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1079.20059
author: Jian-yi Shi
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 2005-02-22T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(W\) be a Weyl or an affine Weyl group and let \(W_c\) be the set of fully commutative elements in \(W\). Lusztig's \(a\)-function is an important invariant for an element of \(W\). It is usually difficult to calculate \(a(z)\) for an arbitrary \(z\in W\). However, in this paper the author associates each \(w\in W\) to a digraph \(G(w)\). By using \(G(w)\), the author gives a graph-theoretic description for Lusztig's \(a\)-function on \(W_c\). For any \(w\in W_c\) denote by \(m(w)\) the maximum possible value of \(l(w_J)\) in an expression \(w=x\cdot w_J\cdot y\). The author proves that \(m(w)=a(w)\) for \(w\in W_c\) such that the value \(a(w)\) for \(w\in W_c\) can be computed easily. The author also describes explicitly all the distinguished involutions of \(W_c\). These results verify two conjectures on \(W_c\): one is the conjecture concerning distinguished involutions in \(W\), this was proposed by the author [in Adv. Sci. China, Math. 3, 79-98 (1990), Conjecture 8.10] and the other is the conjecture concerning the left-connectivity of left cells, this was proposed by \textit{G. Lusztig} [in T. Asai et al., Open problems in algebraic groups, in: R. Hotta (ed.), Problems from the conference on Algebraic Groups and Representations. Katata, August 29-September 3, 1983].
reviewed by: Chen Chengdong
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C20
zbMATH DE Number: 2136961
zbMATH Keywords: affine Weyl groups
zbMATH Keywords: fully commutative elements
zbMATH Keywords: \(a\)-functions
zbMATH Keywords: distinguished involutions
zbMATH Keywords: left cells
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.jalgebra.2004.08.036
OpenAlex ID: W2075953501
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DOI: 10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2004.08.036
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