Paper BOAT

Joint work with Federico Castillo, Damian de la Fuente, and David Plaza. We introduce the notion of a Paper Boat: a new combinatorial object that tessellates the lower intervals of elements in the lowest two-sided Kazhdan–Lusztig cell. Using Paper Boats and convex geometry, we obtain formulas for the cardinalities of these intervals and show that they are given by (quasi-)polynomials. We further conjecture that, in fact, they are always genuine polynomials. As a byproduct of this work, we also discovered a natural partition of the group that is particularly well adapted to studying polynomiality, and which appears to have interesting applications in its own right.

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Charla en FUNDAPROMAT

El jueves 6 de junio de 2024 haré una charla titulada "Creatividad matemática" para todo público.

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On the size of Bruhat intervals

Joint with Federico Castillo, Damian de la Fuente and David Plaza. For affine Weyl groups and elements associated to dominant coweights, we give a convex geometry formula for the size of the corresponding lower Bruhat intervals (this says in particular that it is a polynomial in several variables). Extensive computer calculations for affine Weyl groups have led us to believe that a similar formula exists for all lower Bruhat intervals. We also believe that the cardinality of all Bruhat intervals is given by some family of quasi-polynomials.

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Demazure operators for double cosets

Joint with Ben Elias, Hankyung Ko and Leonardo Patimo. This is the first of a series of papers intended to advance in the development of a singular (i.e. double cosets) theory of Coxeter groups, Hecke algebras, actions of groups on polynomial rings and the Hecke category. Two milestones of this long-term project would be to produce singular light leaves and singular Soergel calculus. Here, we introduce a Demazure operator for any double coset. We prove several results about them, but the crucial thing for us is that they give a criterion for ensuring the proper behavior of singular Soergel bimodules.

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Hipercubos

Un hermoso artículo divulgativo con el gran Andrés Navas sobre los hipercubos.

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Combinatorial invariance conjecture for affine A2

Joint with Gastón Burrull and David Plaza, International Mathematics Research Notices 10 (2023) 8903–8933.  We prove the combinatorial invariance conjecture (by G. Lusztig and M. Dyer in the eighties) for the affine A2. This is the first infinite group with non-trivial Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials where this fascinating conjecture is proved.

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Entrevista en radio Pauta

Fui entrevistado por la muy motivada y entretenida Maritxu Sangroniz en el programa "Un día perfecto" de la radio Pauta. ¡¡Me encantó!! Antes de empezar la entrevista ella me preguntó…

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Pre-canonical bases on affine Hecke algebras

Joint with Leonardo Patimo and David Plaza, Advances in Mathematics  399 (2022). For any affine Weyl group, we introduce the pre-canonical bases, a set of bases of the spherical Hecke algebra that interpolates between the standard basis and the canonical basis. Thus we divide the hard problem of calculating Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials (or q-analogues of weight multiplicities) into a finite number of much easier problems.

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Blob algebra approach to modular representation theory

Joint work with David Plaza. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 121 (2020) Issue3, 656-701. We conjecture (and prove the "graded degree part") an equivalence between the type A affine Hecke category in positive characteristic and a certain blob category that we introduce as a quotient of KLR algebras. This conjecture has been proved recently in an amazing paper by Chris Bowman, Anton Cox, Amit Hazi!! It opens lots of questions...

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