On Kottwitz' conjecture for twisted involutions

Abstract

Kottwitz' conjecture is concerned with the intersections of Kazhdan--Lusztig cells with conjugacy classes of involutions in finite Coxeter groups. In joint work with Bonnafé, we have recently found a way to prove this conjecture for groups of type $B_n$ and $D_n$. The argument for type $D_n$ relies on two ingredients which were used there without proof: (1) a strengthened version of the "branching rule" and (2) the consideration of "$\diamond$-twisted" involutions where $\diamond$ is a graph automorphism. In this paper we deal with (1), (2) and complete the argument for type $D_n$; moreover, we establish Kottwitz' conjecture for $\diamond$-twisted involutions in all cases where $\diamond$ is non-trivial.

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