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On exterior powers of reflection representations, II
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- Canadian Journal of Mathematics / Volume 78 / Issue 6 / December 2026
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- 24 March 2025, pp. 2084-2106
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- December 2026
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Let W be a group endowed with a finite set S of generators. A representation $(V,\rho )$
of W is called a reflection representation of $(W,S)$
if $\rho (s)$
is a (generalized) reflection on V for each generator $s \in S$
. In this article, we prove that for any irreducible reflection representation V, all the exterior powers $\bigwedge ^d V$
, $d = 0, 1, \dots , \dim V$
, are irreducible W-modules, and they are non-isomorphic to each other. This extends a theorem of R. Steinberg which is stated for Euclidean reflection groups. Moreover, we prove that the exterior powers (except for the 0th and the highest power) of two non-isomorphic reflection representations always give non-isomorphic W-modules. This allows us to construct numerous pairwise non-isomorphic irreducible representations for such groups, especially for Coxeter groups.
