HeckeSpecialize

Substitute a value for the deformation parameter. At the algebra collapses to the group algebra of — which is what makes 'deformation' the right word.

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HeckeSpecialize(element, q)set and drop whatever vanishes

Domain: Hecke algebras

Details

• At the two cases of the multiplication rule become one, and for every pair — checked exhaustively over , and
• Everything interesting about — Kazhdan–Lusztig theory, the Jones polynomial, representations at roots of unity — lives at

Examples

See also: HeckeT