Tommaso Terragni (University of Sydney)
Euler characteristic of Hecke algebras
By an old result of Serre, (finitely generated) Coxeter groups admit an Euler characteristic, and this can be computed by evaluating the inverse of the Poincar� series at 1. The Poincar� series itself can be computed through a recursive, alternating-sum formula (Steinberg, Solomon), which is in general meaningless for the corresponding evaluation.
Thus, the Poincar� series looks like an Euler character, much more than its evaluation does.
In this talk we show that it is indeed the case: the Poincar� series of the Coxeter system appears as the (suitably defined) Euler characteristic of a (suitably defined) Hecke algebra.
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