On growth functions of Coxeter groups

DOI10.1017/S0013091525000094MaRDI QIDQ6937082zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sebastian Bischof

Publication date 28 August 2025

Published in Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Series II (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091525000094

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsgrowth functionPoincaré series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Review text

Let \((W, S)\) be a Coxeter system of rank \(n\), with growth function \(p(W, S)(t)\). It is known that \(p(W, S)(q^{-1}) < \infty\) for all integers \(q \geq n\). This paper improves the bound under the assumption that \((W, S)\) is 2-spherical: Theorem~A shows that \(p(W, S)(\frac{1}{n-1}) < \infty\) still holds. Conversely, if the Coxeter diagram is complete and \(m_{st} \geq 3\) for all \(s \ne t\), then \(p(W, S)(\frac{1}{n-2}) = \infty\) (Theorem~C), proving the bound optimal.\N\NThe proof combines descent set analysis with inequalities for the cardinalities of specific subsets \(C_i\) and \(D_i\) in \(W\) and relies on a monotonicity result of \textit{T. Terragni} [Groups Geom. Dyn. 10, No. 2, 601--618 (2016; Zbl 1356.20023)] to reduce to universal Coxeter systems. Applications include new examples of twin building lattices in rank 3 (Corollary~B) and obstructions for their subdiagrams (Corollary~D).

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