Rigidity of Coxeter groups and Artin groups (Q1855282)

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    Rigidity of Coxeter groups and Artin groups
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1864096

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      Rigidity of Coxeter groups and Artin groups (English)
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      4 February 2003
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      A Coxeter group is called rigid if it cannot be defined by two nonisomorphic diagrams. The authors show that an example of a nonrigid Coxeter group belongs to a ``diagram twisting operation'' and that Coxeter groups, belonging to twisted diagrams, are isomorphic. A Coxeter system \((W,S)\) is called reflection rigid, if every Coxeter generating set \(S'\) contained in the set of reflections \(R_S\) determines the same diagram as \((W,S)\). The authors give a number of Coxeter groups which are reflection rigid once twisting is taken into account.
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      Coxeter groups
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      Artin groups
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      diagram twisting
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      rigidity
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      generating sets
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      reflections
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