Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups. II: Parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2023.11.015MaRDI QIDQ6187323zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Theo Douvropoulos, Joel Brewster Lewis, Alejandro H. Morales

Publication date 15 January 2024

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00066

Coxeter element Frobenius manifold Hurwitz numbers reflection group

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: We define parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements in well generated complex reflection groups. We characterize them in multiple natural ways, and we study two combinatorial objects associated with them: the collections

o p e r a t o r n a m e {R e d}_{W} (g)

of reduced reflection factorizations of

g

and

o p e r a t o r n a m e R G S (W, g)

of the relative generating sets of

g

. We compute the cardinalities of these sets for large families of parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements and, in particular, we relate the size

with geometric invariants of Frobenius manifolds. This paper is second in a series of three; we will rely on many of its results in part III to prove uniform formulas that enumerate full reflection factorizations of parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements, generalizing the genus-

0

Hurwitz numbers.

Review text

This article is a continuation of the authors' paper [Enumer. Comb. Appl. 2, No. 3, Article ID S2R20, 21 p. (2022; Zbl 1512.05027)]. In a well generated complex reflection group \(W\) of rank \(n\), an element \(g \in W\) is a quasi-Coxeter element if there exists a length-\(n\) reflection factorization \(t_{1}\cdot \ldots \cdot t_{n}=g\) whose factors \(t_{i}\) generate \(W\). A quasi-Coxeter element of a parabolic subgroup of \(W\) is a parabolic quasi-Coxeter element of \(W\). In the paper under review, the authors characterize parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements in multiple ways, and they study two combinatorial objects associated with them: the collections \(\mathrm{Red}_{W}(g)\) of reduced reflection factorizations of \(g\) and \(\mathrm{RGS}(W, g)\) of relative generating sets of \(g\). They compute the cardinalities of these sets for large families of parabolic quasi-Coxeter elements and, in particular, they relate \(|\mathrm{Red}_{W}(g)|\) with geometric invariants of Frobenius manifolds.

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