Constructible characters and b-invariants

Abstract

To each finite Coxeter system (W,S) and to each weight function L, Lusztig has defined the notions of constructible characters and of Lusztig families of W, using the so-called J-induction. Whenever L is constant, and using a general argument, Lusztig has shown that all Lusztig family contains a unique character with minimal b-invariant, and that every constructible character contains an irreducible constituent with minimal b-invariant. We show in this paper that this can be generalized to the case where L is not constant: our proof is by a case-by-case analysis.Comment: 12 page