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Ben Elias

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arXiv2024

Subexpressions and the Bruhat order for double cosets

The Bruhat order on a Coxeter group is often described by examining subexpressions of a reduced expression. We prove that an analogous description applies to the Bruhat order on double cosets. This establishes the compatibility of the Bruhat order on double cosets with concatenation, leading to compatibility between the monoidal structure and the ideal of lower terms in the singular Hecke 2-category. We also prove other fundamental properties of this ideal of lower terms.

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arXiv2024

Singular Light Leaves

For any Coxeter system we introduce the concept of singular light leaves, answering a question of Williamson raised in 2008. They provide a combinatorial basis for Hom spaces between singular Soergel bimodules.

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arXiv2023

The Hecke category is bigraded

The Hecke category is bigraded. For completeness, we classify gradings on the Hecke category. We also classify object-preserving autoequivalences.

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arXiv2023

Categorifying Hecke algebras at prime roots of unity, part I

We equip the type $A$ diagrammatic Hecke category with a special derivation, so that after specialization to characteristic $p$ it becomes a $p$-dg category. We prove that the defining relations of the Hecke algebra are satisfied in the $p$-dg Grothendieck group. We conjecture that the $p$-dg Grothendieck group is isomorphic to the Iwahori-Hecke algebra, equipping it with a basis which may differ from both the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis and the $p$-canonical basis. More precise conjectures will be found in the sequel. Here are some other results contained in this paper. We provide an incomplete proof of the classification of all degree $+2$ derivations on the diagrammatic Hecke category, and a complete proof of the classification of those derivations for which the defining relations of the Hecke algebra are satisfied in the $p$-dg Grothendieck group. In particular, our special derivation is unique up to duality and equivalence. We prove that no such derivation exists in simply-laced types outside of finite and affine type $A$. We also examine a particular Bott-Samelson bimodule in type $A_7$, which is indecomposable in characteristic $2$ but decomposable in all other characteristics. We prove that this Bott-Samelson bimodule admits no nontrivial fantastic filtrations in any characteristic, which is the analogue in the $p$-dg setting of being indecomposable.

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arXiv2022

Localized calculus for the Hecke category

We construct a functor from the Hecke category to a groupoid built from the underlying Coxeter group. This fixes a gap in an earlier work of the authors. This functor provides an abstract realization of the localization of the Hecke category at the field of fractions. Knowing explicit formulas for the localization is a key technical tool in software for computations with Soergel bimodules.

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arXiv2022

Categorical diagonalization and $p$-cells

In the Iwahori-Hecke algebra, the full twist acts on cell modules by a scalar, and the half twist acts by a scalar and an involution. A categorification of this statement, describing the action of the half and full twist Rouquier complexes on the Hecke category, was conjectured by Elias-Hogancamp, and proven in type $A$. In this paper we make analogous conjectures for the $p$-canonical basis, and the Hecke category in characteristic $p$. We prove the categorified conjecture in type $C_2$, where the situation is already interesting. The decategorified conjecture is confirmed by computer in rank at most 6; information is found in the appendix, written by Joel Gibson.

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arXiv2022

Actions of sl_2 on algebras appearing in categorification

We prove that many of the recently-constructed algebras and categories which appear in categorification can be equipped with an action of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ by derivations. The $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ representations which appear are filtered by tensor products of coverma modules. In a future paper, we will address the implications of the $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ structure for categorification.

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arXiv2021

A diamond lemma for Hecke-type algebras

In this paper we give a version of Bergman's diamond lemma which applies to certain monoidal categories presented by generators and relations. In particular, it applies to: the Coxeter presentation of the symmetric groups, the quiver Hecke algebras of Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier, the Webster tensor product algebras, and various generalizations of these. We also give an extension of Manin-Schechtmann theory to non-reduced expressions.

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arXiv2021

A singular Coxeter presentation

We enlarge a Coxeter group into a category, with one object for each finite parabolic subgroup, encoding the combinatorics of double cosets. This category, the singular Coxeter monoid, is connected to the geometry of partial flag varieties. Our main result is a presentation of this category by generators and relations. We also provide a new description of reduced expressions for double cosets. We describe all the braid relations between such reduced expressions, and prove an analogue of Matsumoto's theorem. This gives a proper development of ideas first introduced by Geordie Williamson. In type A we also equip the singular Coxeter monoid with a diagrammatic presentation using webs.

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arXiv2021

Type $C$ Webs

We define a $\mathbb{C}(q)$-linear pivotal category $\mathbf{Web}(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})$ and prove that it is equivalent to the full subcategory of finite-dimensional representations of $U_q(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n})$ tensor-generated by the fundamental representations. This answers the type $C$ case of the main open problem from Kuperberg's 1996 paper "Spiders for rank 2 Lie algebras" (arXiv:q-alg/9712003).

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arXiv2018

Gaitsgory's central sheaves via the diagrammatic Hecke category

We initiate the study of Gaitsgory's central sheaves using complexes of Soergel bimodules, in extended affine type A. We conjecture that the complex associated to the standard representation can be flattened to a central complex in finite type A, which is the complex sought after in a conjecture of Gorsky-Negut-Rasmussen.

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arXiv2017

Relative hard Lefschetz for Soergel bimodules

We prove the relative hard Lefschetz theorem for Soergel bimodules. It follows that the structure constants of the Kazhdan-Lusztig basis are unimodal. We explain why the relative hard Lefschetz theorem implies that the tensor category associated by Lusztig to any 2-sided cell in a Coxeter group is rigid and pivotal.

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arXiv2017

Categorical diagonalization

This paper lays the groundwork for the theory of categorical diagonalization. Given a diagonalizable operator, tools in linear algebra (such as Lagrange interpolation) allow one to construct a collection of idempotents which project to each eigenspace. These idempotents are mutually orthogonal and sum to the identity. We categorify these tools. At the categorical level, one has not only eigenobjects and eigenvalues but also eigenmaps, which relate an endofunctor to its eigenvalues. Given an invertible endofunctor of a triangulated category with a sufficiently nice collection of eigenmaps, we construct idempotent functors which project to eigencategories. These idempotent functors are mutually orthogonal, and a convolution thereof is isomorphic to the identity functor. In several sequels to this paper, we will use this technology to study the categorical representation theory of Hecke algebras. In particular, for Hecke algebras of type A, we will construct categorified Young symmetrizers by simultaneously diagonalizing certain functors associated to the full twist braids.

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arXiv2017

Soergel bimodules for universal Coxeter groups

We produce an explicit recursive formula which computes the idempotent projecting to any indecomposable Soergel bimodule for a universal Coxeter system. This gives the exact set of primes for which the positive characteristic analogue of Soergel's conjecture holds. Along the way, we introduce the multicolored Temperley-Lieb algebra. An appendix by Ben Webster gives a precise condition on the base ring for a Jones-Wenzl projector to exist.

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arXiv2017

Diagrammatics for Coxeter groups and their braid groups

We give a monoidal presentation of Coxeter and braid 2-groups, in terms of decorated planar graphs. This presentation extends the Coxeter presentation. We deduce a simple criterion for a Coxeter group or braid group to act on a category.

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arXiv2017

Quantum Satake in type A: part I

We give an interpretation of sl_n webs as morphisms between certain singular Soergel bimodules. We explain how this is a combinatorial, algebraic version of the geometric Satake equivalence (in type A). We then q-deform the construction, giving an equivalence between representations of U_q(sl_n) and certain singular Soergel bimodules for a q-deformed Cartan matrix. In this paper, we discuss the general case but prove only the case n=2,3. In the sequel we will prove the case n >= 4.

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arXiv2017

Modular representation theory in type A via Soergel bimodules

In this paper we express certain multiplicities in modular representation-theoretic categories of type A in terms of affine p-Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. The representation-theoretic categories we deal with include the categories of rational representations of GL(n), representations of the quantum group for gl(n), and representations of (degenerate) cyclotomic Hecke and Schur algebras, where the base field is an algebraically closed field of arbitrary prime characteristic. In order to approach this problem we define Soergel-theoretic versions of parabolic categories O in characteristic p. We show that these categories have many common features with the classical parabolic categories O; for example, they are highest weight. We produce a homomorphism from a (finite or affine) type A 2-Kac-Moody category to the diagrammatic version of the category of singular Soergel bimodules (again, of finite or affine type A). This leads to a categorical Kac-Moody action on the Soergel-theoretic categories O. Then we relate the representation-theoretic categories to Soergel-theoretic ones by proving a uniqueness result for highest weight categorical actions on Fock spaces.

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