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Exterior powers of reflection representations.

Nov. 18, 2023. The 16th National Conference on Algebra.

Huaqiao University. Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China.

Abstract:
  In 1968, R. Steinberg proved a theorem stating that the exterior powers of an irreducible reflection representation of a Euclidean reflection group are again irreducible and pairwise non-isomorphic. We extend this result to a more general context where the inner product invariant under the group action may not necessarily exist. Moreover, generically two exterior powers of non-isomorphic reflection representations are also non-isomorphic. This result applies to an arbitrary Coxeter group, whose reflection representations can be classified explicitly. In this way, a large class of irreducible representations of Coxeter groups is obtained.