Even more infinite ball packings from Lorentzian root systems

zbMATH Open1350.52008arXiv1408.2439MaRDI QIDQ311510FDOQ311510

Authors: Hao Chen 

Publication date: 13 September 2016

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Boyd (1974) proposed a class of infinite ball packings that are generated by inversions. Later, Maxwell (1983) interpreted Boyd's construction in terms of root systems in Lorentz space. In particular, he showed that the space-like weight vectors correspond to a ball packing if and only if the associated Coxeter graph is of "level $2$." In Maxwell's work, the simple roots form a basis of the representations space of the Coxeter group. In several recent studies, the more general based root system is considered, where the simple roots are only required to be positively independent. In this paper, we propose a geometric version of "level" for the root system to replace Maxwell's graph theoretical "level." Then we show that Maxwell's results naturally extend to the more general root systems with positively independent simple roots. In particular, the space-like extreme rays of the Tits cone correspond to a ball packing if and only if the root system is of level $2$. We also present a partial classification of level-$2$ root systems, namely the Coxeter $d$-polytopes of level-$2$ with $d+2$ facets.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2439

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zbMATH Keywords

ball packinghyperbolic Coxeter groupCoxeter polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

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