Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Introduced by David Kazhdan and George Lusztig in 1979.

Noun[edit]

Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial (plural Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials)

  1. (mathematics, representation theory) A member Py,w(q) of a certain family of integral polynomials that are indexed by pairs of elements y, w of a Coxeter group W, which can in particular be the Weyl group of a Lie group.