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Affine weyl groups and conjugacy classes in Weyl groups

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

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  1. Department of Mathematics, M. I. T., 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    George Lusztig

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Supported in part by the National Science Foundation.

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Lusztig, G. Affine weyl groups and conjugacy classes in Weyl groups. Transformation Groups 1, 83–97 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02587737

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