Proper locally spherical hypertopes of hyperbolic type (Q2114797)

This paper is concerned with the study of \emph{hypertopes}, or more precisely, thin, residually connected incidence geometries with chamber transitive type-preserving automorphism groups. Typically such incidence geometries are described by a symbol \(\mathcal H=(X,*,t,I)\) where \(X\) is the set of elements, \(*\) is the incidence relation on the elements, \(t\) is the \emph{type function} on \(X\), and \(I\) is the set of types. Hypertopes may be obtained from quotients of Coxeter groups under certain conditions (see, e.g., [\textit{M. E. Fernandes} et al., Aequationes Math. 90, No. 5, 1045--1067 (2016; Zbl 1354.51016)]). A hypertope is \emph{regular} if the group of its type preserving automorphism group \(\mathrm{Aut}_{I}(\mathcal H)\) acts transitively on the chambers of \(\mathcal H\) (chambers of hypertopes are analogous to maximal chains in abstract polytopes). A \emph{flag} of a hypertope \(\mathcal H\) is any set of mutually incident elements of \(X\), so chambers are maximal flags. A group \(G\) action on \(\mathcal H\) is \emph{flag-transitive} if it acts transitively on the set of flags of \(\mathcal H\). A group \(G\) with a flag-transtive action on a regular hypertope \(\mathcal H\) is said to be \emph{flag-transitive}. Let \(G\) be a group generated by involutions \(\{\rho_{i}:i\in I\}\), and for each \(J\subseteq I\) we define \(G_{J}=\langle \rho_{j}:j\in J\rangle\). We say that \(G\) satisfies the \emph{intersection condition} or is a \(C\)-\emph{group} if \(G_{J}\cap G_{K}=G_{J\cap K}\) for all choices of \(J,K\subseteq I\). A hypertope is \emph{proper} if it is not isomorphic to an abstract polytope, in other words, if the Coxeter diagram of \(\mathrm{Aut}_{I}(\mathcal H)\) is not linear. To each Coxeter diagram is associated a Coxeter group whose relations on its generates are completely determined by its diagram, and to it is associated the \emph{universal regular hypertope}. A universal regular hypertope is \emph{spherical} if its Coxeter diagram is a union of diagrams of finite irreducible Coxeter groups, and a \emph{locally} spherical regular hypertope is a hypertope whose maximal residues are spherical hypertopes. An irreducible locally spherical regular hypertope is of \emph{hyperbolic type} if its Coxeter diagram is the same as that of an irreducible compact hyperbolic Coxeter group, which exist only in ranks 3, 4 and 5. Using CPR-graphs [\textit{D. Pellicer}, Eur. J. Comb. 29, No. 1, 59--71 (2008; Zbl 1129.05017)], the authors construct an infinite family of proper \(n\)-edge colored graphs for every nonlinear Coxeter diagram of hyperbolic type, and from them an infinite family of proper locally spherical regular hypertopes for each hyperbolic type. A hypertope is of \emph{type} \((p_{1}, p_{2}, \ldots, p_{n})\) when its Coxeter diagram is a cycle with successive edges labeled by \(p_{1}, \ldots, p_{n}\). The authors provide two key lemmas (Lemmas 3 and 4) that are useful for confirming that the intersection property is satisfied for a group \(G\) obtained from a CPR graph, and to show that the group \(G\) is flag-transitive. Using these lemmas infinite families of hypertopes of types \((3,3,3,4)\), \((3,3,3,5)\), \((3,4,3,4)\), \((3,4,3,5)\), \((3,5,3,5)\), \((3,3,3,3,4)\) are obtained, as well as hypertopes with Schläfli type \(\{5,\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{0}{3}{5}\}\), and \(\{5,3,\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{0}{3}{5}\}\). Consequently, they are able to show that Corollary: For every positive integer \(t\) and every diagram of hyperbolic type \(D\) there exists a regular hypertope \(\mathcal H\) with Coxeter diagram \(D\) such that \(|\mathrm{Aut}_{I}(\mathcal H)|\ge t\).