Representations of Coxeter groups and homology of Coxeter graphs

Abstract: We classify a class of complex representations of an arbitrary Coxeter group via characters of the integral homology of certain graphs. Such representations can be viewed as a generalization of the geometric representation and correspond to the second-highest 2-sided cell in the sense of Kazhdan-Lusztig. We also give a description of the cell representation provided by this 2-sided cell, and find out all its simple quotients for simply laced Coxeter system with no more than one circuit in the Coxeter graph.