A complex euclidean reflection group with an elegant complement complex

DOI10.4171/GGD/620MaRDI QIDQ6289251arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Ben Coté, Jon McCammond

Publication date 20 July 2017

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/620

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: The complement of a hyperplane arrangement in $mathbb{C}^n$ deformation retracts onto an $n$-dimensional cell complex, but the known procedures only apply to complexifications of real arrangements (Salvetti) or the cell complex produced depends on an initial choice of coordinates (Bj"orner-Ziegler). In this article we consider the unique complex euclidean reflection group acting cocompactly by isometries on $mathbb{C}^2$ whose linear part is the finite complex reflection group known as $G_4$ in the Shephard-Todd classification and we construct a choice-free deformation retraction from its hyperplane complement onto an elegant $2$-dimensional complex $K$ where every $2$-cell is a euclidean equilateral triangle and every vertex link is a M"obius-Kantor graph. Since $K$ is non-positively curved, the corresponding braid group is a CAT(0) group, despite the fact that there are non-regular points in the hyperplane complement, the action of the reflection group on $K$ is not free, and the braid group is not torsion-free.

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