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Double Affine Hecke Algebras and Congruence Groups

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Bogdan Ion and Siddhartha Sahi

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 268, Number 1305
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-4326-9 (print); 978-1-4704-6341-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1305
Published electronically: February 23, 2021

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Notation and Conventions
  • 3. Affine Root Systems
  • 4. A Refinement of Van der Lek’s Presentation
  • 5. The Coxeter Presentation
  • 6. Automorphisms
  • 7. (Anti)Involutions and Diagram Automorphisms
  • 8. Reductive Group Data
  • 9. Extended Double Affine Artin Groups
  • 10. Hecke Algebras
  • A. Combinatorial Results
  • B. Non-Coxeter Groups

Abstract

The most general construction of double affine Artin groups (DAAG) and Hecke algebras (DAHA) associates such objects to pairs of compatible reductive group data. We show that DAAG/DAHA always admit a faithful action by automorphisms of a finite index subgroup of the Artin group of type $A_{2}$, which descends to a faithful outer action of a congruence subgroup of $\operatorname {SL}(2,\mathbb {Z})$ or $\mathrm {PSL}(2,\mathbb {Z})$. This was previously known only in some special cases and, to the best of our knowledge, not even conjectured to hold in full generality.

It turns out that the structural intricacies of DAAG/DAHA are captured by the underlying semisimple data and, to a large extent, even by adjoint data; we prove our main result by reduction to the adjoint case. Adjoint DAAG/DAHA correspond in a natural way to affine Lie algebras, or more precisely to their affinized Weyl groups, which are the semi-direct products $W\ltimes Q^{\vee }$ of the Weyl group $W$ with the coroot lattice $Q^{\vee }$. They were defined topologically by van der Lek, and independently, algebraically, by Cherednik. We now describe our results for the adjoint case in greater detail.

We first give a new Coxeter-type presentation for adjoint DAAG as quotients of the Coxeter braid groups associated to certain crystallographic diagrams that we call double affine Coxeter diagrams. As a consequence we show that the rank two Artin groups of type $A_{2},B_{2},G_{2}$ act by automorphisms on the adjoint DAAG/DAHA associated to affine Lie algebras of twist number $r=1,2,3$, respectively. This extends a fundamental result of Cherednik for $r=1$.

We show further that the above rank two Artin group action descends to an outer action of the congruence subgroup $\Gamma _{1}(r)$. In particular, $\Gamma _{1}( r)$ acts naturally on the set of isomorphism classes of representations of an adjoint DAAG/DAHA of twist number $r$, giving rise to a projective representation of $\Gamma _{1}( r)$ on the space of a $\Gamma _{1}( r)$-stable representation. We also provide a classification of the involutions of Kazhdan-Lusztig type that appear in the context of these actions.

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