A specialization theorem for certain Weyl group representations and an application to the green polynomials of unitary groups
A specialization theorem for certain Weyl group representations and an application to the green polynomials of unitary groups
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某些Weyl群表示的专门化定理及其在酉群绿色多项式中的应用
DOI:
10.1007/bf01418371
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发表时间:
1977
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T. A. Springer
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作者:
R. Hotta;T. A. Springer
If G is a connected reductive linear algebraic group over IFq, the finite field with q elements of characteristic p, and A is a nilpotent element of its Lie algebra, the second named author defined in [12] representations of the Weyl group of G in the/-adic cohomology of the variety~ a of Borel subgroups of G whose Lie algebras contain A (under some restrictions on the characteristic p). A brief r6sum~ of the construction is given in w 1. The main result of w is Theorem 1.1, a specialization theorem for these representations, which allows one to make, in certain cases, a reduction to the case A= 0. As an example of such a reduction we give in Proposition 1.4 an identification of some of the irreducible pieces of the Weyl group representations, in the case that A is a nilpotent" of parabolic type", ie such that its orbit intersects densely the Lie algebra of the unipotent radical of some parabolic subgroup. That a result like this exists was pointed out to one of us by G. Lusztig (in a letter dated 17 Feb., 1976). The method of deriving 1.4 from 1.1 is also due to him.As a second application of 1.1 we determine the Green polynomials of the unitary groups U, 0Fq)(assuming q sufficiently large). These Green functions are the ones of [12]. It was proved by Kazhdan [6] that they coincide with the Green functions defined by Deligne and Lusztig in [2]. The Green functions of GL,,(IFq) are given by polynomials in q. The main result about those of U,(IF4) is that one obtains them" by changing q into-q" in the Green functions of GL,,(IF, O. The precise formulation is given in Theorem 3.1. Combined with the recent work on the classification of the irreducible characters of U,(IF,) by Lusztig and Srinivasan [8](see also Kawanaka's paper [5]), a conjecture of Ennola [3] has thus been settled (for p and q large enough). The proof of 3.1 uses the properties of Green functions established in [12] and some results about the cohomology of the varieties~ a and their complements in the flag manifold. These results, also mentioned (but too briefly) in [12; 7.7], follow from what is established by Spaltenstein in [11]. A precise formulation of what we need is given in w This section also contains some remarks on the coefficients of the Green polynomials of GL,(IFq), which fit naturally in the discussion.