Affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups induced by projection.

DOI10.1063/1.4820441zbMATH Open1291.20037arXiv1110.5228OpenAlexW3105739404WikidataQ56003525 ScholiaQ56003525MaRDI QIDQ5409674FDOQ5409674

Authors: Pierre-Philippe Dechant, Céline Bœhm, Reidun Twarock 

Publication date: 14 April 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups can be derived via Coxeter-Dynkin diagram foldings and projections of affine extended versions of the root systems E_8, D_6 and A_4. We show that the induced affine extensions of the non-crystallographic groups H_4, H_3 and H_2 correspond to a distinguished subset of the Kac-Moody-type extensions considered in Dechant et al. This class of extensions was motivated by physical applications in icosahedral systems in biology (viruses), physics (quasicrystals) and chemistry (fullerenes). By connecting these here to extensions of E_8, D_6 and A_4, we place them into the broader context of crystallographic lattices such as E_8, suggesting their potential for applications in high energy physics, integrable systems and modular form theory. By inverting the projection, we make the case for admitting different number fields in the Cartan matrix, which could open up enticing possibilities in hyperbolic geometry and rational conformal field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5228

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zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter-Dynkin diagramsaffine extensionsnon-crystallographic Coxeter groupscrystallographic latticesaffine extended root systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Root systems (17B22)

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