Proof of Shvartsman's conjecture on braid groups of projective complex reflection groups

DOI10.1090/PROC/17754MaRDI QIDQ7303751zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Owen Garnier

Publication date 24 July 2026

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/17754

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Review text

The paper proves the conjecture formulated by \textit{O. V. Shvartsman} [Funct. Anal. Appl. 30, 30--35 (1996; Zbl 0878.20026)] for complex projective reflection groups.\N\NLet \(G\subset\mathrm{PGL}(V)\) be a nontrivial irreducible projective reflection group, let \(X\subset\mathbb{P}(V)\) be the set of points with trivial stabilizer under \(G\) and let \(W\subset\mathrm{GL}(V)\) be the maximal reflection group lifting \(G\). If \(B\) denotes the complex braid group associated with \(W\), then \(\pi_1(X/G)\cong B/Z(B)\). This extends Shvartsman's corresponding description for real projective reflection groups.\N\NThe proof first establishes the existence and uniqueness of the maximal reflection-group lift. It then introduces the space \(X_S\) of strongly regular vectors, obtained by removing the reflecting hyperplanes and the proper regular eigenspaces and the enlarged braid group \(B_S=\pi_1(X_S/W)\). The center of \(B_S\) is shown to be infinite cyclic and the fundamental group of the associated projective quotient is identified with \(B_S/Z(B_S)\). For the maximal lift one has \(B_S\cong B\), which yields the stated result.\N\NThe paper also corrects a result of \textit{M. Broué} et al. ([J. Reine Angew. Math. 500, 127--190 (1998; Zbl 0921.20046)]) concerning the relation between projective braid groups and complex braid groups.

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