Seminar series
Date
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
14:00
14:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Yutong Chen, University of Cambridge, Li Gu, University of Oxford, and William Osborne, University of Oxford
A well-known open problem for representations of symmetric groups is the Saxl conjecture. In this talk, we put Saxl's conjecture into a Lie-theoretical framework and present a natural generalisation to Weyl groups. After giving necessary preliminaries on spin representations and the Springer correspondence, we present our progress on the generalised conjecture. Next, we reveal connections to tensor product decomposition problems in symmetric groups and provide an alternative description of Lusztig’s cuspidal families. Finally, we propose a further generalisation to all finite Coxeter groups.