Transformation Groups

, Volume 1, Issue 1–2, pp 83–97 | Cite as

Affine weyl groups and conjugacy classes in Weyl groups

  • George Lusztig
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Abstract

We define a map from an affine Weyl group to the set of conjugacy classes of an ordinary Weyl group.

Keywords

Conjugacy Class Irreducible Component Weyl Group Cartan Subalgebra Nilpotent Element 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • George Lusztig
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  1. 1.Department of MathematicsM. I. T.CambridgeUSA

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