Parabolic Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials for quasi-minuscule quotients

Abstract

We study the parabolic Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials for the quasi-minuscule quotients of Weyl groups. We give explicit closed combinatorial formulas for the parabolic Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials of type q. Our study implies that these are always either zero or a monic power of q, and that they are not combinatorial invariants. We conjecture a combinatorial interpretation for the parabolic Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials of type −1.