Rank reduction of string C-group representations

DOI10.1090/PROC/14666MaRDI QIDQ5238121zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dimitri Leemans, Peter A. Brooksbank

Publication date 28 October 2019

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01055

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupabstract regular polytopestring C-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Symmetric groups (20B30) Simple groups: alternating groups and groups of Lie type (20D06) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: We show that a rank reduction technique for string C-group representations first used for the symmetric groups generalizes to arbitrary settings. The technique permits us, among other things, to prove that orthogonal groups defined on $d$-dimensional modules over fields of even order greater than 2 possess string C-group representations of all ranks $3leqrleqd$. The broad applicability of the rank reduction technique provides fresh impetus to construct, for suitable families of groups, string C-groups of highest possible rank. It also suggests that the alternating group $mAlt(11)$---the only known group having `rank gaps'---is perhaps more unusual than previously thought.

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