Linearity of generalized cactus groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.07.039MaRDI QIDQ6051015zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Runze Yu

Publication date 19 September 2023

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.00860

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupgeneralized cactus grouppure cactus group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: Cactus groups are traditionally defined based on symmetric groups, and pure cactus groups are particular subgroups of cactus groups. Mostovoy showed that pure cactus groups embed into right-angled Coxeter groups. We generalize this result to cactus groups associated with arbitrary finite Coxeter groups and we investigate some representations of generalized cactus groups and deduce the linearity of generalized cactus groups.

Review text

For an integer \(n \geq 1\), the cactus group \(J_{n}\) is the group generated by \(s_{p,q}\) for \(1 \leq p < q \leq n\) with relations: \(s_{p,q}^{2}=1\), \([s_{p,q},s_{m,r}]=1\) if \([m,r] \cap [p,q]=\emptyset\), \(s_{p,q}s_{m,r}=s_{p+q-r,p+q-m}s_{p,q}\) if \([m,r] \subset [p,q]\). There is a homomorphism \(g : J_{n} \rightarrow S_{n}\) given by \(s_{p,q} \mapsto \sigma_{p,q}\), where \(\sigma_{p,q}\) reverses the order of elements \(p, \dots, q\) and leaves the rest unchanged. The kernel of \(g\) is the pure cactus group \(\Gamma_{n}\). \textit{J. Mostovoy} in [Arch. Math. 113, No. 3, 229--235 (2019; Zbl 1512.20122)] proved that \(\Gamma_{n}\) embeds into a right-angled Coxeter group (and therefore is residually nilpotent). In the paper under review, the author generalizes Mostovoy's results to cactus groups associated with arbitrary finite Coxeter groups and deduces the linearity of generalized cactus groups.

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