On the cyclically fully commutative elements of Coxeter groups. (Q438738)

An element in a Coxeter group is called a fully commutative element, if any two reduced expressions are equivalent by only short braid relations. The authors define a cyclically fully commutative element in a Coxeter group as an element for which every cyclic shift of any reduced expression is a reduced expression of a fully commutative element. They enumerate the cyclically fully commutative elements in all Coxeter groups. They investigate a number of combinatorial properties of cyclically fully commutative elements. The main result, that the authors obtain, is the following theorem: Let \(w\) be a cyclically fully commutative element in a Coxeter group \(W\) with no large bands, then \(w\) is logarithmic if and only if \(w\) is torsion-free.