Involutions and reflection subgroups of finite Coxeter groups.

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2009.02.002MaRDI QIDQ1041610zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Moszkowski

Publication date 3 December 2009

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2009.02.002

zbMATH Keywords

finite Coxeter groupsfinite reflection groupsproducts of generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Review text

This paper, published after the author's death in 2004, gives a ``purely algebraic derivation of the classification of the finite Coxeter groups -- namely those finite groups generated by involutions \(s_i\) subject to defining relations \({s_i}^2=(s_is_j)^{m_{ij}}=1\) where the \(m_{ij}\) are specified integers. The approach, which involves a fairly detailed analysis of multiplication of words in the generators, is not surprising; other authors have indicated how this approach (or aspects of it) would work. A more standard and much easier proof of the classification uses geometric representations. Here the classification depends on Proposition 2, which asserts that the order of each product \(s_is_j\) of a pair of generators is equal to the exponent \(m_{ij}\) given in the group presentation, or is infinite when \(m_{ij}\) is unspecified. This is proved in an addendum [see Eur. J. Comb. 30, No. 8, 1913-1918 (2009; Zbl 1191.20038)].

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