Subspace Arrangements and Cherednik Algebras

The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between numerical invariants of certain subspace arrangements coming from reflection groups and numerical invariants arising in the representation theory of Cherednik algebras. For instance, we observe that knowledge of the equivariant graded Betti numbers (in the sense of commutative algebra) of any irreducible representation in category O is equivalent to knowledge of the Kazhdan-Lusztig character of the irreducible object. We then explore the extent to which Cherednik algebra techniques may be applied to ideals of linear subspace arrangements: we determine when the radical of the polynomial representation of the Cherednik algebra is a radical ideal, and, for the cyclotomic rational Cherednik algebra, determine the socle of the polynomial representation and characterize when it is a radical ideal. The subspace arrangements that arise include various generalizations of the k-equals arrangment. In the case of the socle, we give an explicit vector space basis in terms of certain specializations of non-symmetric Jack polynomials, which in particular determines its minimal generators and Hilbert series and answers a question posed by Feigin and Shramov. These results suggest several conjectures and questions about the submodule structure of the polynomial representation of the Cherednik algebra.