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Murnaghan-Nakayama Rules for Characters of Iwahori-Hecke Algebras of the Complex Reflection Groups G(r, p, n)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Tom Halverson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Macalester College St. Paul, MN USA
Arun Ram
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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Iwahori-Hecke algebras for the infinite series of complex reflection groups $G(r,\,p,\,n)$ were constructed recently in the work of Ariki and Koike [AK], Broué and Malle [BM], and Ariki [Ari]. In this paper we give Murnaghan-Nakayama type formulas for computing the irreducible characters of these algebras. Our method is a generalization of that in our earlier paper [HR] in which we derived Murnaghan-Nakayama rules for the characters of the Iwahori-Hecke algebras of the classical Weyl groups. In both papers we have been motivated by C. Greene [Gre], who gave a new derivation of the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula for irreducible symmetric group characters by summing diagonal matrix entries in Young's seminormal representations. We use the analogous representations of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of $G(r,\,p,\,n)$ given by Ariki and Koike [AK] and Ariki [Ari].

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1998

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