Conjugacy classes and straight elements in Coxeter groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2014.03.008MaRDI QIDQ402662zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timothée Marquis

Publication date 28 August 2014

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1021

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesCoxeter groupsfully commutative elementsbraid relationsCoxeter elementscyclic shiftscyclically reduced wordsDavis complexesstraight elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10)

Abstract: Let W be a Coxeter group. In this paper, we establish that, up to going to some finite index normal subgroup W_0 of W, any two cyclically reduced expressions of conjugate elements of W_0 only differ by a sequence of braid relations and cyclic shifts. This thus provides a simple description of conjugacy classes in W_0. As a byproduct of our methods, we also obtain a characterisation of straight elements of W, namely of those elements w in W for which $ell(w^n)=nell(w)$ for any integer n. In particular, we generalise previous characterisations of straight elements within the class of so-called cyclically fully commutative (CFC) elements, and we give a shorter and more transparent proof that Coxeter elements are straight.

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