A note on element centralizers in finite Coxeter groups.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2010.074MaRDI QIDQ3117258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matjaž Konvalinka, Götz Pfeiffer, Claas E. Röver

Publication date 25 February 2012

Published in jgth (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1186

zbMATH Keywords

centralizersconjugacy classesfinite Coxeter groupsparabolic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: The normalizer $N_W(W_J)$ of a standard parabolic subgroup $W_J$ of a finite Coxeter group $W$ splits over the parabolic subgroup with complement $N_J$ consisting of certain minimal length coset representatives of $W_J$ in $W$. In this note we show that (with the exception of a small number of cases arising from a situation in Coxeter groups of type $D_n$) the centralizer $C_W(w)$ of an element $winW$ is in a similar way a semidirect product of the centralizer of $w$ in a suitable small parabolic subgroup $W_J$ with complement isomorphic to the normalizer complement $N_J$.

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