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Length-additive products of the standard intertwiners
Statement
For Weyl-sorted with distinct , put and . With the canonical intertwiners of Standard intertwining operators for the finite principal series, set for . Then whenever the intrinsic (equivalently here ambient) lengths add, and the simple satisfy all type-A braid and commuting relations. The raw basis also has length-additive products in these sorted coordinates. For arbitrary , choose the prescribed sorting and a module isomorphism from The Weyl stabiliser controls the principal series endomorphisms; transport the normalized basis through . Its labels and length are transported through the sorting permutation. This does not identify the unsorted raw ambient-length basis with the transported basis. No choice principle is used.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , a prime power , with diagonal torus and Borel , a Weyl-sorted character with distinct characters of , the blocks of , the standard parabolic with Levi and unipotent radical , the character of , the principal series module with its idempotent , and for the corner element and operator (Standard intertwining operators for the finite principal series).
The Weyl group of is with simple transpositions and inversion length ; for the sorted character the stabiliser is the group of block permutations (Diagonal torus characters and the Weyl action).
The elements , , form a -basis of , where the corner multiplication is the multiplication in and right multiplication turns into with reversed products () (Standard intertwining operators for the finite principal series, The standard intertwiners form a basis of the principal series endomorphism algebra).
For each block let and let be the corresponding idempotent for the trivial character. The map , with , is an algebra automorphism, and because for upper triangular one has . Multiplicativity of the determinant makes a character, so ; the inverse scales by . (The group ring is a unital -algebra with basis , and each is a unit of , For same-sized finite square matrices over a commutative ring, , The determinant of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal entries, The principal series module for finite GL_n).
For every block the standard basis elements , , of the block Hecke algebra satisfy whenever (The Bruhat double-coset basis of the finite Hecke algebra, Length-additive products in the finite Hecke algebra).
and for every , so an arbitrary is isomorphic to its sorted form (The Weyl stabiliser controls the principal series endomorphisms).
with normalising , and is a bijection, so every has a unique expression with , (Block Levi decomposition of standard parabolics, Compositions, partial flags, and standard parabolics).
Proof
In the group algebra one has with and : indeed is a bijection because and , and for , , so , while . Moreover commutes with every element of , because for (the Levi normalises the unipotent radical), so conjugation by permutes the sum defining .
Fix a block and with . Since is an algebra automorphism with and , one has for every . Applying to the block identity , which follows from [F4] by writing , and using multiplicativity of together with , the scalar factors cancel and give .
For the permutation matrix is block diagonal with blocks , and . Using step 1.1 and , and , one gets ; multiplying by and distributing the length over the blocks gives , where is the block corner element.
Let satisfy . Writing the block permutations , , one has and , so in every block. By steps 2.1 and 1.2, . Since right multiplication is a homomorphism (with the reversed product convention), : the raw basis is length-additive in the sorted coordinates.
For general with additivity, multiplicativity of and give by step 3.1.
For simple transpositions inside a block, the permutations and coincide and both triple products are length-additive, so step 4.1 applied twice gives ; for simple transpositions with commuting permutations, both products are length-additive and step 4.1 gives .
Steps 3.1, 4.1 and 5.1 give the length-additive rule for the raw and the normalised basis together with the braid and commuting relations. For an arbitrary , let with be the prescribed sorting and let be a module isomorphism, which exists by [F5] with ; conjugating the transported basis is an algebra isomorphism, so the same product identities hold for the transported basis, whose label in is and whose governing length is the transported intrinsic length . This length need not equal the ambient inversion length of , because inversion length is not a class function on , so the transported basis is not asserted to coincide with the raw ambient-length basis , which carries ambient lengths and no -normalisation. All sums are finite, the block decomposition and permutation matrices are explicit, and no choice principle is used.
Depends on
- The standard intertwiners form a basis of the principal series endomorphism algebra
- The Weyl stabiliser controls the principal series endomorphisms
- Diagonal torus characters and the Weyl action
- Standard intertwining operators for the finite principal series
- Length-additive products in the finite Hecke algebra
- The Bruhat double-coset basis of the finite Hecke algebra
- The principal series module for finite GL_n
- Compositions, partial flags, and standard parabolics
- Block Levi decomposition of standard parabolics
- The group ring $R[G]$ is a unital $R$-algebra with basis $G$, and each $g\in G$ is a unit of $R[G]$
- The determinant of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal entries
- For same-sized finite square matrices over a commutative ring, $\det(AB)=\det(A)\det(B)$
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Sources
- Olivier Dudas and Jean Michel, Lectures on Finite Reductive Groups and Their Representations - Lemma 11.9 and its proof, printed p. 49 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Olivier Dudas and Jean Michel, Lectures on Finite Reductive Groups and Their Representations - Theorem 11.11 and the preceding discussion of (P1)-(P3), printed pp. 49-50 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Jay Taylor, Finite Reductive Groups - The relation $\bar T_s\bar T_w=\bar T_{sw}$ for length-increasing products, printed p. 44 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Olivier Dudas and Jean Michel, Lectures on Finite Reductive Groups and Their Representations, Remark 9.3, Proposition 9.5, §11.1 and Theorem 11.11 (standard reference, not scraped)