Affine Weyl groups#

class sage.categories.affine_weyl_groups.AffineWeylGroups#

Bases: Category_singleton

The category of affine Weyl groups

Todo

add a description of this category

See also

EXAMPLES:

sage: C = AffineWeylGroups(); C
Category of affine Weyl groups
sage: C.super_categories()
[Category of infinite Weyl groups]

sage: C.example()
NotImplemented
sage: W = WeylGroup(["A", 4, 1]); W                                             # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
Weyl Group of type ['A', 4, 1] (as a matrix group acting on the root space)
sage: W.category()                                                              # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
Category of irreducible affine Weyl groups
class ElementMethods#

Bases: object

affine_grassmannian_to_core()#

Bijection between affine Grassmannian elements of type \(A_k^{(1)}\) and \((k+1)\)-cores.

INPUT:

  • self – an affine Grassmannian element of some affine Weyl group of type \(A_k^{(1)}\)

Recall that an element \(w\) of an affine Weyl group is affine Grassmannian if all its all reduced words end in 0, see is_affine_grassmannian().

OUTPUT:

  • a \((k+1)\)-core

See also

affine_grassmannian_to_partition()

EXAMPLES:

sage: # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: W = WeylGroup(['A', 2, 1])
sage: w = W.from_reduced_word([0,2,1,0])
sage: la = w.affine_grassmannian_to_core(); la
[4, 2]
sage: type(la)
<class 'sage.combinat.core.Cores_length_with_category.element_class'>
sage: la.to_grassmannian() == w
True

sage: w = W.from_reduced_word([0,2,1])                                  # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: w.affine_grassmannian_to_core()                                   # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: this only works on type 'A' affine Grassmannian elements
affine_grassmannian_to_partition()#

Bijection between affine Grassmannian elements of type \(A_k^{(1)}\) and \(k\)-bounded partitions.

INPUT:

  • self is affine Grassmannian element of the affine Weyl group of type \(A_k^{(1)}\) (i.e. all reduced words end in 0)

OUTPUT:

  • \(k\)-bounded partition

See also

affine_grassmannian_to_core()

EXAMPLES:

sage: # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: k = 2
sage: W = WeylGroup(['A', k, 1])
sage: w = W.from_reduced_word([0,2,1,0])
sage: la = w.affine_grassmannian_to_partition(); la
[2, 2]
sage: la.from_kbounded_to_grassmannian(k) == w
True
is_affine_grassmannian()#

Test whether self is affine Grassmannian.

An element of an affine Weyl group is affine Grassmannian if any of the following equivalent properties holds:

  • all reduced words for self end with 0.

  • self is the identity, or 0 is its single right descent.

  • self is a minimal coset representative for W / cl W.

EXAMPLES:

sage: # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: W = WeylGroup(['A', 3, 1])
sage: w = W.from_reduced_word([2,1,0])
sage: w.is_affine_grassmannian()
True
sage: w = W.from_reduced_word([2,0])
sage: w.is_affine_grassmannian()
False
sage: W.one().is_affine_grassmannian()
True
class ParentMethods#

Bases: object

affine_grassmannian_elements_of_given_length(k)#

Return the affine Grassmannian elements of length \(k\).

This is returned as a finite enumerated set.

EXAMPLES:

sage: W = WeylGroup(['A', 3, 1])                                        # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: [x.reduced_word()                                                 # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
....:  for x in W.affine_grassmannian_elements_of_given_length(3)]
[[2, 1, 0], [3, 1, 0], [2, 3, 0]]

See also

AffineWeylGroups.ElementMethods.is_affine_grassmannian()

special_node()#

Return the distinguished special node of the underlying Dynkin diagram.

EXAMPLES:

sage: W = WeylGroup(['A', 3, 1])                                        # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
sage: W.special_node()                                                  # needs sage.combinat sage.groups
0
additional_structure()#

Return None.

Indeed, the category of affine Weyl groups defines no additional structure: affine Weyl groups are a special class of Weyl groups.

See also

Category.additional_structure()

Todo

Should this category be a CategoryWithAxiom?

EXAMPLES:

sage: AffineWeylGroups().additional_structure()
super_categories()#

EXAMPLES:

sage: AffineWeylGroups().super_categories()
[Category of infinite Weyl groups]