On quotients of Coxeter groups (Q6144375)

A group \(G\) is said to be just infinite if \(G\) itself is infinite but all proper quotients of \(G\) are finite. It was proven in [\textit{G. Maxwell}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 76, No. 2, 359--382 (1998; Zbl 0908.20034)] that irreducible affine Coxeter groups are just infinite. In the paper under review the authors show that the converse statement is also true, that is a Coxeter group is just infinite only if it is an irreducible affine one. For a group \(G\) let \(\mathcal{F}(G)\) be the set of isomorphism classes of finite quotients of \(G\). Two groups \(G\) and \(H\) are said to have the same finite quotients if \(\mathcal{F}(G)=\mathcal{F}(H)\). A group \(G\) is profinitely rigid among a class of groups \(\mathcal{C}\) if \(G \in \mathcal{C}\) and for any group \(H \in \mathcal{C}\), whenever \(\mathcal{F}(G)=\mathcal{F}(H)\), then \(G \simeq H\). Another interesting result proven in this article is that just infinite Coxeter groups are profinitely rigid among all Coxeter groups.