This paper classifies and constructs explicitly all the irreducible representations of affine Hecke algebras of rank two root systems. The methods used to obtain this classification are primarily combinatorial and are, for the most part, an application of the methods used in [Ra1]. I have made special effort to describe how the classification here relates to the classifications by Langlands parameters (coming from p-adic group theory) and by indexing triples (coming from a q-analogue of the Springer correspondence). There are several reasons for doing the details of this classification: (a) The proof of the one of the main results of [Ra1] I single out Jacqui Ramagge with special thanks for everything she has done to help with this project: from the most mundane typing and picture drawing to deep intense mathematical conversations which helped to sort out many pieces of this theory. Her immense contribution is evident in that some of the papers in this series on representations of affine Hecke algebras are joint papers.A portion of this research was done during a semester long stay at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute where I was supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship. I thank MSRI and National Science Foundation for support of my research.
Definitions and preliminary resultsThe Weyl group.Let R be a reduced irreducible root system in R n , fix a set of positive roots R + and let {α 1 , . . . , α n } be the corresponding simple roots in R. Let W be the Weyl group corresponding to R. Let s i denote the simple reflection in W corresponding to the simple root α i and recall that W can be presented by generators s 1 , s 2 , . . . , s n and relationsThe Iwahori-Hecke algebra. Fix q ∈ C * such that q is not a root of unity. The Iwahori-Hecke algebra H is the associative algebra over C defined by generators T 1 , T 2 , . . . , T n and relationswhere m ij are the same as in the presentation of W . For w ∈ W define T w = T i 1 · · · T i p where s i 1 · · · s i p = w is a reduced expression for w. By [Bou, Ch. IV §2 Ex. 23], the element T w does not depend on the choice of the reduced expression. The algebra H has dimension |W | and the set {T w } w∈W is a basis of H.The group X. The fundamental weights are the elements ω 1 , . . . , ω n of R n given by ω i , α ∨ j = δ ij . The weight lattice is the W -invariant lattice in R n given byLet X be the abelian group P except written multiplicatively. In other words, X = {X λ | λ ∈ P }, and X λ X µ = X λ+µ = X µ X λ , for λ, µ ∈ P .
Affine Hecke algebras 3Let C[X] denote the group algebra of X. There is a W -action on X given by wX λ = X wλ for w ∈ W , X λ ∈ X, which we extend linearly to a W -action on C[X].The affine Hecke algebra. The affine Hecke algebraH associated to R and P is the algebra given byH = C-span{T w X λ | w ∈ W, X λ ∈ X} where the multiplication of the T w is as in the Iwahori-Hecke algebra H, the multiplication of the X λ is as in C[X] and we impose the relationThis formulation of the definition ofH is due to Lusztig [Lu2] following work of Bernstein...