Maximal length parabolic subgroups in finite Coxeter groups.

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Authors Sarah B. Hart, Peter J. Rowley

Publication date 11 May 2012

Published in JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.pphmj.com/abstract/6550.htm

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter lengths of elementsfinite Coxeter groupsparabolic subgroupsroot sytemsroots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

For a Coxeter group \(W\) and a subset \(X\) of \(W\), let NEWLINE\[NEWLINEN(X)=\{\alpha\in\Phi^+\mid w\cdot\alpha\in\Phi^-\text{ for some }w\in X\},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Phi^+\) and \(\Phi^-\) are, respectively, the positive and negative roots of the root system \(\Phi\) of \(W\). The Coxeter length of \(X\), \(l(X)\), is defined to be the cardinality of \(N(X)\). Let \(X\) be a subgroup of a finite Coxeter group \(W\) and \(X^W\) be the set of \(W\)-conjugates of \(X\). Let \(f_X^+\) be the number of positive roots fixed by \(X\).NEWLINENEWLINE The following two theorems are among the main results obtained by the authors:NEWLINENEWLINE 1. For \(X\) a parabolic subgroup of a finite Coxeter group \(W\), NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\mu(X^W)= \max\{l(Y):Y\in X^W\}=|\Phi^+|-f_X^+.NEWLINE\]NEWLINE 2. Suppose that \(W\) is a Coxeter group of type \(A_n\), \(B_n\) or \(D_n\), that \(X\) is a standard parabolic subgroup of \(W\) and \(Y\) is a \(W\)-conjugate of \(X\). Then \(Y\) has maximal length in the \(W\)-conjugacy class of \(X\) if and only if the \(Y\)-orbits of \(\Omega\) form an intertwined partition of \(\Omega\). Here \(\Omega\) is a set of size \(n+1\) if \(W\) is of type \(A_n\) and of size \(2n\) if \(W\) is of type \(B_n\) or \(D_n\) and \(W\) acts as a permutation group on \(\Omega\).

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