On Coxeter diagrams of complex reflection groups.

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05517-6MaRDI QIDQ2841375zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tathagata Basak

Publication date 25 July 2013

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2427

zbMATH Keywords

complex reflection groupsCoxeter diagramspresentationsroot latticessimple rootsunitary reflection groupsWeyl groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15)

Abstract: We study Coxeter diagrams of some unitary reflection groups. Using solely the combinatorics of diagrams, we give a new proof of the classification of root lattices defined over $$: there are only four such lattices, namely, the $cE$-lattices whose real forms are $A_2$, $D_4$, $E_6$ and $E_8$. Next, we address the issue of characterizing the diagrams for unitary reflection groups, a question that was raised by Brou'{e}, Malle and Rouquier. To this end, we describe an algorithm which, given a unitary reflection group $G$, picks out a set of complex reflections. The algorithm is based on an analogy with Weyl groups. If $G$ is a Weyl group, the algorithm immediately yields a set of simple roots. Experimentally we observe that if $G$ is primitive and $G$ has a set of roots whose $$--span is a discrete subset of the ambient vector space, then the algorithm selects a minimal generating set for $G$. The group $G$ has a presentation on these generators such that if we forget that the generators have finite order then we get a (Coxeter-like) presentation of the corresponding braid group. For some groups, such as $G_{33}$ and $G_{34}$, new diagrams are obtained. For $G_{34}$, our new diagram extends to an "affine diagram" with $$ symmetry.

Review text

The finite complex reflection groups have been classified by \textit{G. C. Shephard} and \textit{J. A. Todd} [Can. J. Math. 6, 274-304 (1954; Zbl 0055.14305)]; see also \textit{A. M. Cohen} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 9, 379-436 (1976; Zbl 0359.20029)], \textit{G. I. Lehrer} and \textit{D. E. Taylor} [Unitary reflection groups. Aust. Math. Soc. Lect. Ser. 20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2009; Zbl 1189.20001)]. The author gives a new proof for the classification of all root lattices over the Eisenstein integers \(\mathbb Z[e^{2\pi i/3}]\). Moreover, he considers the problem to associate diagrams with complex reflection groups (resembling Coxeter diagrams for real reflection groups); he proposes an algorithm and reports on some computer experiments. For some groups, new diagrams are obtained. This leads to presentations for the corresponding braid groups.

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