Coxeter combinatorics for sum formulas in the representation theory of algebraic groups

Abstract

Let $G$ be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb{F}$ of characteristic $p\geq h$, the Coxeter number of $G$. We observe an easy `recursion formula' for computing the Jantzen sum formula of a Weyl module with $p$-regular highest weight. We also discuss a `duality formula' that relates the Jantzen sum formula to Andersen's sum formula for tilting filtrations and we give two different representation theoretic explanations of the recursion formula. As a corollary, we also obtain an upper bound on the length of the Jantzen filtration of a Weyl module with $p$-regular highest weight in terms of the length of the Jantzen filtration of a Weyl module with highest weight in an adjacent alcove.