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Admissible Sequences for Twisted Involutions in Weyl Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ruth Haas  and
Aloysius G. Helminck
Ruth Haas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USAe-mail: rhaas@math.smith.edu
Aloysius G. Helminck
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USAe-mail: loek@unity.ncsu.edu
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Let $W$ be a Weyl group, $\sum $ a set of simple reflections in $W$ related to a basis $\Delta $ for the root system $\Phi $ associated with $W$ and $\theta $ an involution such that $\theta (\Delta )\,=\,\Delta $. We show that the set of $\theta $- twisted involutions in $W$, ${{\mathcal{J}}_{\theta }}\,=\,\{w\,\in \,W\,|\,\theta (w)\,=\,{{w}^{-1}}\}$ is in one to one correspondence with the set of regular involutions ${{\mathcal{J}}_{\text{ID}}}$. The elements of ${{\mathcal{J}}_{\theta }}$ are characterized by sequences in $\sum $ which induce an ordering called the Richardson–Springer Poset. In particular, for $\Phi $ irreducible, the ascending Richardson–Springer Poset of ${{\mathcal{J}}_{\theta }}$, for nontrivial $\theta $ is identical to the descending Richardson–Springer Poset of ${{\mathcal{J}}_{\text{ID}}}$.

Keywords

20G1520G2022E1522E4643A85
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , 01 December 2011 , pp. 663 - 675
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2011

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