Abstract. The Rouquier blocks of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras, introduced by Rouquier, are a substitute for the families of characters defined by Lusztig for Weyl groups, which can be applied to all complex reflection groups. In this article, we determine them for the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of the groups of the infinite series G (de, e, r), thus completing their calculation for all complex reflection groups.
IntroductionUntil recently, the lack of Kazhdan-Lusztig bases for the non-Coxeter complex reflection groups did not allow the generalization of the notion of families of characters from Weyl groups to all complex reflection groups. However, thanks to the results of Gyoja [12] and Rouquier [21], we have obtained a substitute for the families of characters that can be applied to all complex reflection groups. In particular, Rouquier has proved that the families of characters of a Weyl group W coincide with the Rouquier blocks of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of W , that is, its blocks over a suitable coefficient ring. This definition generalizes to all complex reflection groups, and we are grateful for this for the following reasons.On the one hand, since the families of characters of a Weyl group play an essential role in the definition of the families of unipotent characters of the corresponding finite reductive group (see [14]), the families of characters of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras could play a key role in the organization of families of unipotent characters in general. On the other hand, for some (non-Coxeter) complex reflection groups W , we have data that seem to indicate that behind the group W , there exists another mysterious objectthe Spets (see [3], [18] G(d, 1, r). Using the generalization of some classic results, known as Clifford theory, they were able to obtain the Rouquier blocks for G (d, d, r) from those of G (d, 1, r). Later, Kim [13] generalized the methods used in [2] in order to obtain the Rouquier blocks of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of G (de, e, r) from those of G (de, 1, r).As far as the exceptional complex reflection groups are concerned, some special cases were treated by Malle and Rouquier in [19]. Finally, in [5], the author gives the complete classification of the Rouquier blocks of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras for all exceptional complex reflection groups.However, recently it was realized that the algorithm of [2] for G(d, 1, r) does not work, unless d is a power of a prime number. In [7], the author gives the correct algorithm, which is more complicated than the one in [2]. Now, it remains to recalculate the Rouquier blocks of the cyclotomic Hecke algebras of G (de, e, r) in order to complete the determination of the Rouquier blocks for all complex reflection groups.Using the same idea as in [13], we apply Clifford theory in order to obtain the Rouquier blocks for G (de, e, r) from those of G (de, 1, r). However, there is one case where this is not possible, that is, when r = 2 and e is even. In that case, we apply the same methods as in [5] in order to determine ...