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Weights and characters for affine Hecke algebras

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Pith's one-line read Weights uniquely determine simple modules for quasi-simply-connected affine Hecke algebras, and isogenies preserve unitarity.

desk verdict Solid algebraic extension of weight-uniqueness for quasi-simply-connected affine Hecke algebras, plus clean isogeny functoriality for Hermitian duals and unitarity. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.10010 v1 pith:D5P4NIU4 submitted 2026-07-10 math.RT

classification math.RT MSC 20C0822E50
keywords affineHeckealgebrasweightscharactersLanglandsclassificationisogeniesunitarityHermitianformsquasi-simply-connected
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The reading

Affine Hecke algebras control the representation theory of p-adic groups via Bernstein blocks, and their simple modules carry a collection of weights coming from a large commutative subalgebra. This paper proves that when the root datum is quasi-simply-connected those weights already determine each simple module, and that the formal characters of simple modules are linearly independent; consequently any finite-length module can be reconstructed from its character by a finite algorithm once the tempered modules for proper parabolics are known. The same uniqueness is used to study induction and restriction along central morphisms (isogenies) of root data: the larger algebra becomes a graded module over the smaller one, induction and restriction preserve semisimplicity, and both operations send Hermitian forms to Hermitian forms while preserving unitarity. The results therefore give a precise dictionary between representations of isogenous groups that keeps track of the analytic properties needed for the Langlands correspondence.

What carries the argument

The Langlands classification of simple modules as unique irreducible quotients of standard modules M(P, π, t), combined with the fact that stabilisers of weights are generated by reflections (Lemma 7) for quasi-simply-connected root data; this forces tempered+antitempered modules with the same central character to be isomorphic and yields linear independence of characters by induction on parabolic rank.

What would settle it

Exhibit a quasi-simply-connected affine Hecke algebra (especially adjoint type B with unequal short-root parameters) and two non-isomorphic tempered+antitempered simple modules that share the same central character, or two non-isomorphic simples with identical sets of A-weights.

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Core claim

For a quasi-simply-connected affine Hecke algebra the A-characters of simple modules are linearly independent over C, so the set of weights uniquely determines each simple module and characters determine Jordan–Hölder multiplicities of finite-length modules. Along isogenies, induction and restriction preserve semisimplicity, Hermitian duals and unitarity.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that every weight stabiliser is generated by reflections when the root datum is quasi-simply-connected, proved by a short induction for adjoint type B; if that generation fails for some parameters the uniqueness theorems collapse.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Any finite-length module over a quasi-simply-connected affine Hecke algebra can be reconstructed from its character once tempered modules for proper parabolics are known.
  • Induction and restriction along isogenies give a graded correspondence that preserves unitarity and Hermitian duals between the representation theories of isogenous groups.
  • Conjugacy-class packets of simple modules for non-quasi-simply-connected algebras are still uniquely determined by their weights.
  • The same character-independence holds for the associated graded affine Hecke algebras.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The graded structure that makes the Hermitian form on induced modules work may give a model for other non-parabolic induction functors that still preserve unitarity.
  • Once tempered modules are tabulated for classical types, the algorithm of Theorem 14 becomes a practical machine for computing Jordan–Hölder series of Iwahori-fixed representations of the corresponding p-adic groups.
  • The linear-independence statement for characters should survive passage to the completed Hecke algebra used in the full local Langlands correspondence.
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Summary. The paper studies the extent to which A-weights and A-characters determine simple modules for affine Hecke algebras H(R) with parameters satisfying the usual non-vanishing conditions. For the newly defined class of quasi-simply-connected root data it proves that tempered+antitempered simples are uniquely determined by central character (Theorem 8), that A-characters of all simples are linearly independent (Theorem 12), and therefore that weights uniquely determine simples (Corollary 10) and characters determine Jordan–Hölder multiplicities of finite-length modules (Theorem 14). For general isogeny classes the same statements hold up to explicit outer automorphisms coming from the isogeny. The second half develops the graded algebra structure of a central morphism H1 o H2 (Proposition 21), shows that induction and restriction along isogenies preserve semisimplicity (Theorem 20), and constructs an explicit graded Hermitian pairing that realises Ind(V†)≅(Ind V)† and multiplies signatures by the index, hence preserves unitarity (Theorems 34–35).

Significance. The uniqueness and linear-independence statements complete and unify earlier results of Evens–Mirković (simply-connected equal-parameter case) and Barbasch–Ciubotaru (graded Hecke algebras), while the independent proof of Antor–Okada is acknowledged. The isogeny package supplies a clean graded-algebra description of induction/restriction that preserves the Hermitian and unitary structures; this is markedly different from the parabolic case treated by Opdam–Solleveld and is useful for reducing questions about arbitrary isogeny classes to the quasi-simply-connected setting. The arguments are self-contained once the standard Langlands classification and Kato’s criterion are granted, and the explicit graded pairing is a concrete computational tool.

minor comments (5)
  1. Definition 6 of “quasi-simply-connected” is clear, but a one-sentence remark that the only non-simply-connected primitive summands that can appear are adjoint Bn with unequal short-root parameters would help the reader see why the class is natural.
  2. In the proof of Lemma 7 the gallery argument for the simply-connected case is standard; a brief pointer to Humphreys §1.5 (already cited) or to the corresponding statement in Lusztig would make the reference complete.
  3. The linear-independence argument of Theorem 12 is inductive on parabolic rank and ultimately reduces to the tempered+antitempered case via the Iwahori–Matsumoto involution; a short sentence at the beginning of the proof outlining this strategy would improve readability.
  4. Section 4.1 (rank-1 example) is useful but could be shortened; the explicit matrices for the principal series are standard and the essential point is the behaviour of the two one-dimensional modules under the isogeny.
  5. A few typographical inconsistencies appear: “Jordan-H¨ older” (missing umlaut), “antitempered” versus “anti-tempered”, and occasional missing spaces after punctuation. These are easily corrected in production.

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No circularity: uniqueness of simples by weights/characters and preservation properties along isogenies are derived from Kato's criterion, a self-contained combinatorial lemma on stabilizers, the external Langlands classification, and an explicit grading, without self-referential reduction or fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper is a pure representation-theory derivation with no data fitting, no empirical predictions, and no self-citations. Theorem 8 (tempered+antitempered modules determined by central character) invokes Kato's external irreducibility criterion (Lemma 5) together with the paper's own short proof of Lemma 7 (stabilizers generated by reflections for quasi-simply-connected root data, via affine-Weyl galleries for simply-connected summands and signed-permutation induction for adjoint B_n) and the standing parameter conditions (1)–(2); the conclusion is not assumed. Corollary 10 and Theorem 12 then reduce the general case to Theorem 8 by the external Langlands classification (Lemma 3, Solleveld/Evens), the paper's strengthening of maximal-weight uniqueness (Proposition 2), and the Iwahori–Matsumoto involution; linear independence of characters follows by induction on parabolic rank and is not circular. The isogeny results (Theorems 20, 28, 29, 34, 35) rest on the explicit X_2/X_1-grading of H_2 (Proposition 21) and the projection E onto the degree-zero summand; they preserve semisimplicity, Hermitian duals and unitarity by direct construction and do not invoke the uniqueness theorems as black boxes. No step equates a claimed output to an input by definition, and external citations (Kato, Solleveld, Evens, Lusztig, etc.) supply independent, non-author-overlapping facts. The derivation is therefore self-contained against its stated assumptions.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The paper works entirely inside the standard axiomatic framework of affine Hecke algebras (root data, parameters satisfying Lusztig’s conditions, Langlands classification). No free parameters are fitted. The only non-standard definition is the class of quasi-simply-connected algebras, introduced to make the uniqueness theorems hold. All other ingredients are standard theorems of the field.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Langlands classification for affine Hecke algebras: every simple module is the unique irreducible quotient of a standard module Ind(π∘φ_t) with π tempered and |t| in the positive chamber (Solleveld, Evens).
    Used throughout §2.1 and in the inductive proofs of Theorems 12 and 28.
  • domain assumption Kato’s criterion for irreducibility of principal series Ind_A^H t (Lemma 5).
    Invoked in the proof of Theorem 8 to reduce uniqueness of tempered+antitempered modules to vanishing of certain c_α.
  • domain assumption Parameters λ,λ* constant on extended affine Weyl orbits and satisfying λ(α)=λ*(α) when α^∨∉2Y and λ(α)+λ*(α)≠0 when α^∨∈2Y.
    Standing hypotheses (1)–(2) that define the specialised affine Hecke algebras under consideration.
  • ad hoc to paper Stabilisers Stab_W(t) are generated by reflections when the root datum is quasi-simply-connected (Lemma 7).
    Proved in the paper for simply-connected and adjoint B_n cases; load-bearing for Theorem 8.
invented entities (1)
  • quasi-simply-connected root datum / affine Hecke algebra
    purpose: The precise class for which weights uniquely determine simple modules and characters are linearly independent.
    Defined in Definition 6 as simply-connected or adjoint B with unequal short-root parameters; the uniqueness theorems fail without this restriction.

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Weights play an essential role in the classification of simple modules for affine Hecke algebras. In this paper we show the extent to which weights determine simple modules and use this to describe induction and restriction along isogenies. We also describe the behaviour of hermitian duals and unitarity under induction and restriction along isogenies.

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