Root systems for two dimensional complex reflection groups (Q5932846): Difference between revisions

\textit{A. M. Cohen} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér., IV. Sér. 9, 379-436 (1976; Zbl 0359.20029)] defined root graphs and root systems connected with finite complex reflection groups for dimension greater than 2. In the paper under review root systems are given for the two dimensional complex reflection groups which are generated by two reflections. The classification of such groups is of long standing but the authors give a new classification which simultaneously leads in a natural way to root graphs and root systems. This is done by first introducing certain polynomials \(f_l(x)\), \(l>0\), and then determining which of these have all their roots in \((0,1)\). It turns out that the irreducible two dimensional complex reflection groups are in one-one correspondence with these polynomials; furthermore, their roots provide a natural way of forming the corresponding root graph and root system.