Braids and tableaux for unipotent Hecke algebras
Nat Thiem, Stanford University
This talk describes (and defines) a family of Hecke algebras that
generalize the classical Iwahori-Hecke algebra. While many of the
results extend to other groups of Lie type, this talk focuses on the
case where the underlying group is the general linear group over a
finite field. The main results include: (a) an indexing of the basis
elements in terms of row and column degree-sum matrices, (b) a set of
braid-like relations for multiplying basis elements, and (c) a
generalization of the RSK-correspondence that maps sets of monomial
matrices to multi-tableaux.