scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15650

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Authors Louis Solomon

Publication date 25 June 1992

zbMATH Keywords

alternating sumCoxeter generatorsfinite Coxeter groupsfinite groupnumber of conjugacy classesparabolic subgroupssplit \((B,N)\) pairWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of partitions of integers (05A17) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0704.00015.] Let \(G\) be a finite group with a split \((B,N)\) pair. Let \(W\) be the Weyl group and let \(I\) be a set of Coxeter generators for \(W\). If \(J\subseteq I\) let \(W_ J\) be the corresponding parabolic subgroup of \(W\) and let \(P_ J =BW_ JB\) be the corresponding parabolic subgroup of \(G\). Let \(k(P_ J)\) (resp. \(k(W_ J)\)) denote the number of conjugacy classes of \(P_ J\) (resp. of \(W_ J\)). \textit{R. Knörr} and \textit{G. R. Robinson} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 39, 48-60 (1989; Zbl 0672.20005)] have shown that there is a remarkable formula for the alternating sum over parabolic subgroups \(P_ J\) of the numbers \(k(P_ J)\). In this paper, the analogue of the alternating sum over \(P_ J\) of the numbers \(k(P_ J)\) in which \(P_ J\) is replaced by \(W_ J\) and \(k(P_ J)\) is replaced by \(k(W_ J)\) is given for finite Coxeter groups \(W\).

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