Coxeter groups, imaginary cones and dominance.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2013.262.339zbMATH Open1285.20038arXiv1108.5232OpenAlexW2056908279MaRDI QIDQ354588FDOQ354588

Xiang Fu

Publication date: 19 July 2013

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Brink and Howlett have introduced a partial ordering, called dominance, on the positive roots in the Tits realization of Coxeter groups (Math. Ann. 296 (1993), 179--190). Recently a concept called $infty$-height is introduced to each reflection in an arbitrary Coxeter group $W$ (Edgar, Dominance and regularity in Coxeter groups, PhD thesis, 2009). It is known (Dyer, unpublished) that for all $W$ of finite rank, and for each non-negative $n$, the set of reflections of $infty$-height equal to $n$ is finite. However, it is not clear that the concepts of $infty$-height and dominance are related. Here we show that the $infty$-height of an arbitrary reflection is equal to the number of positive roots strictly dominated by the positive root corresponding to that reflection. We also give applications of dominance to the study of imaginary cones of Coxeter groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5232

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsdominanceroot systemselementary rootspositive rootsTits cones

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Root systems (17B22)

Cited In (6)

• Imaginary cones and limit roots of infinite Coxeter groups
• Small roots, low elements, and the weak order in Coxeter groups
• Imaginary cone and reflection subgroups of Coxeter groups
• \(n\)-low elements and maximal rank \(k\) reflection subgroups of Coxeter groups
• The dominance hierarchy in root systems of Coxeter groups.
• On the limit set of root systems of Coxeter groups acting on Lorentzian spaces

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