Reflections in abstract Coxeter groups.

DOI10.4171/CMH/69MaRDI QIDQ2497113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William N. Franzsen, Bernhard Mühlherr, R. B. Howlett

Publication date 1 August 2006

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506573

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsCoxeter groupsinvolutionsisomorphism problemreflections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Abstract: Let $W$ be a Coxeter group and $rinW$ a reflection. If the group of order 2 generated by $r$ is the intersection of all the maximal finite subgroups of $W$ that contain it, then any isomorphism from $W$ to a Coxeter group $W^{\prime }$ must take $r$ to a reflection in $W^{\prime }$. The aim of this paper is to show how to determine, by inspection of the Coxeter graph, the intersection of the maximal finite sugroups containing $r$. In particular we show that the condition above is satisfied whenever $W$ is infinite and irreducible, and has the property that all rank two parabolic subgroups are finite. So in this case all isomorphisms map reflections to reflections.

Review text

Let \((W,R)\) be a Coxeter system, where \(R\) is a Coxeter generating set. The set of reflections in a Coxeter group is not always determined by the abstract group \(W\). The authors investigate when \(W\) determines the set of reflections. Their main result is the following theorem. Let \((W,R)\) be a Coxeter system of finite rank. Then the following holds. a) For each \(r\in R\) the finite continuation of \(r\) can be described. b) Given an involution \(w\in W\) such that \(\text{FC}(w)=\langle w\rangle\), then \(w\in R^W\). The description of a) is quite involved. The symbol \(\text{FC}(w)\) stands for the finite continuation of \(w\) which is defined to be the intersection of all maximal finite subgroups containing it.

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