Coxeter group actions on the complement of hyperplanes and special involutions. (Q1769382)

Let \(G\) be a Coxeter group and \(R\) its root system. Suppose \(\sigma\) is an involution in \(G\) with \(-1\)-eigenspace \(V_1\) and \(1\)-eigenspace \(V_2\). Then \(\sigma\) is called special if for any root in \(R\) at least one of its projections onto \(V_1\) or \(V_2\) is proportional to a root in \(V_1\cap R\) or \(V_2\cap R\). The authors investigate properties of special involutions. They consider standard and twisted actions of the real Coxeter group \(G\) on the complement \({\mathcal M}_G\) to the complexified reflection hyperplanes by combining the reflections with complex conjugation. They obtain as their main result the following theorem. Let \(X_G\) be the set of conjugacy classes of special involutions in the Coxeter group \(G\). Then the total cohomology \(H^*({\mathcal M}_G)\) as \(G\)-module with respect to the standard action of \(G\) on \({\mathcal M}_G\) can be represented in the form \[ H^*({\mathcal M}_G)=\sum_{\sigma\in X_G}(2\text{Ind}^G_{\langle\sigma\rangle}(1)-\rho). \] For the twisted action one should replace in this formula \(X_G\) by its subset consisting of the conjugacy classes of even special involutions. The twisted representation is regular only for the symmetric group \(S_n\), the Weyl groups of type \(D_{2m+1}\), \(E_6\), and dihedral groups \(I_2(2k+1)\).