On hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes with mutually intersecting facets

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2007.04.006MaRDI QIDQ2469201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anna Felikson, Pavel Tumarkin

Publication date 4 February 2008

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604248

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter diagramCoxeter polytopeGale diagrammissing facesimple polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Gale and other diagrams (52B35)

Abstract: We prove that, apart from some well-known low-dimensional examples, any compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytope has a pair of disjoint facets. This is one of very few known general results concerning combinatorics of compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes. We also obtain a similar result for simple non-compact polytopes.

Review text

While spherical and Euclidean Coxeter polytopes have been classified long ago [\textit{H. S. M. Coxeter}, Ann. Math. (2) 35, 588-621 (1934; Zbl 0010.01101)], the situation is very different for hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes. For instance, it was proved by \textit{E. B. Vinberg} [Funct. Anal. Appl. 15, 128--130 (1981; Zbl 0468.51006)] that there exist no compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes in dimensions \(d\geq30\), and by \textit{M. N. Prokhorov} [Math. USSR, Izv. 28, 401--411 (1987; Zbl 0613.51010)] and \textit{A. G. Khovanskij} [Funct. Anal. Appl. 20, 41--50 (1986); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 20, No.~1, 50--61 (1986; Zbl 0597.51014)] that there exist no Coxeter polytopes of finite volume in dimensions \(d\geq996\). Moreover, some combinatorial types of hyperbolic polytopes have been classified. In the present paper, the authors prove the following results about \(d\)-dimensional hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes \(P\). \(\bullet\) First, let \(P\) be compact. If \(d>4\), then \(P\) has a pair of disjoint facets; if \(d\leq4\) and \(P\) has no pair of disjoint facets, then \(P\) is either a simplex or one of seven \textit{Esselmann polytopes}, certain \(4\)-dimensional polytopes with mutually intersecting facets. \(\bullet\) Now let \(P\) be simple and of finite volume, but non-compact. If \(d>9\), then \(P\) has a pair of disjoint facets; if \(d\leq9\) and \(P\) has no pair of disjoint facets, then \(P\) is either a simplex or a certain \(4\)-dimensional polytope with 6 facets. The proof proceeds by extensive, computer-supported case analysis of Coxeter diagrams in dimensions up to 6, and induction for \(d\geq7\). The case \(d=4\) additionally involves Gale diagrams.

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