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EULER CHARACTERISTIC OF SPRINGER FIBERS

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For Weyl groups of classical types, we present formulas to calculate the restriction of Springer representations to a maximal parabolic subgroup of the same type. As a result, we give recursive formulas for Euler characteristics of Springer fibers for classical types. We also give tables of those for exceptional types.

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KIM, D. EULER CHARACTERISTIC OF SPRINGER FIBERS. Transformation Groups 24, 403–428 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-018-9487-4

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