Generalized exponents of small representations. II

Abstract

This is the second paper in a sequence devoted to giving manifestly non-negative formulas for generalized exponents of small representations in all types. It contains a first formula for generalized exponents of small weights which extends the Shapiro-Steinberg formula for classical exponents. The formula is made possible by a computation of Fourier coefficients of the degenerate Cherednik kernel. Unlike the usual partition function coefficients, the answer reflects only the combinatorics of minimal expressions as a sum of roots.