The homology of a space on which a reflection group acts

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-87-05506-2MaRDI QIDQ579682zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael W. Davis

Publication date 1987

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-87-05506-2

zbMATH Keywords

actions of Coxeter groups on CW-groupsCoxeter systemhomology groups of certain spacesreflection group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other groups related to topology or analysis (20F38) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N99) Finite transformation groups (57S17)

Review text

Let (W,S) be a Coxeter system, X a CW-complex and \(\{X_ s\}^ a \)family of subcomplexes indexed by S. There is a standard way to form a CW-complex A containing X on which W acts so that \(A=WX\) and the \(X_ s\) play a role analogous to the mirrors in a kaleidoscope. The author computes the homology \(H_*(A)\) as a direct sum of relative homology groups \(H_*(X,Y_ w)\) where \(w\in W\) and \(Y_ w\subset X\) is a certain subcomplex for each w. When W is finite, the \({\mathbb{Q}}W\)-module structure on \(H_*(A, {\mathbb{Q}})\) is also determined.

Recommendations

• Cohomology of Coxeter groups with group ring coefficients. II.
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