The adjoint group of a Coxeter quandle

Publication date: 23 February 2017

Abstract: We give explicit descriptions of the adjoint group of the Coxeter quandle

Q_{W}

associated with an arbitrary Coxeter group

W

. The adjoint group of

Q_{W}

turns out to be an intermediate group between

W

and the corresponding Artin group

A_{W}

, and fits into a central extension of

W

by a finitely generated free abelian group. We construct

2

-cocycles of

W

corresponding to the central extension. In addition, we prove that the commutator subgroup of the adjoint group of

Q_{W}

is isomorphic to the commutator subgroup of

W

. Finally, the root system

P h i_{W}

associated with a Coxeter group

W

turns out to be a rack. We prove that the adjoint group of

P h i_{W}

is isomorphic to the adjoint group of

Q_{W}

.

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