Tits groups of Iwahori-Weyl groups and presentations of Hecke algebras

Abstract: Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over a non-archimedean local field $F$ and $I$ be an Iwahori subgroup of $G(F)$. Let $I_n$ is the $n$-th Moy-Prasad filtration subgroup of $I$. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to give some nice presentations of the Hecke algebra of connected, reductive groups with $I_n$-level structure; and to introduce the Tits group of the Iwahori-Weyl group of groups $G$ that split over an unramified extension of $F$. The first main result of this paper is a presentation of the Hecke algebra $\mathcal H(G(F),I_n)$, generalizing the previous work of Iwahori-Matsumoto on the affine Hecke algebras. For split $GL_n$, Howe gave a refined presentation of the Hecke algebra $\mathcal H(G(F),I_n)$. To generalize such a refined presentation to other groups requires the existence of some nice lifting of the Iwahori-Weyl group $W$ to $G(F)$. The study of a certain nice lifting of $W$ is the second main motivation of this paper, which we discuss below. In 1966, Tits introduced a certain subgroup of $G(\mathbf k)$, which is an extension of $W$ by an elementary abelian $2$-group. This group is called the Tits group and provides a nice lifting of the elements in the finite Weyl group. The "Tits group" $\mathcal T$ for the Iwahori-Weyl group $W$ is a certain subgroup of $G(F)$, which is an extension of the Iwahori-Weyl group $W$ by an elementary abelian $2$-group. The second main result of this paper is a construction of Tits group $\mathcal T$ for $W$ when $G$ splits over an unramified extension of $F$. As a consequence, we generalize Howe's presentation to such groups. We also show that when $G$ is ramified over $F$, such a group $\mathcal T$ of $W$ may not exist.