Bounding reflection length in an affine Coxeter group.

DOI10.1007/S10801-011-0289-1MaRDI QIDQ644697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jon McCammond, T. Kyle Petersen

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4918

zbMATH Keywords

affine Coxeter groupsproducts of reflectionsreflection lengths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: In any Coxeter group, the conjugates of elements in the standard minimal generating set are called reflections and the minimal number of reflections needed to factor a particular element is called its reflection length. In this article we prove that the reflection length function on an affine Coxeter group has a uniform upper bound. More precisely we prove that the reflection length function on an affine Coxeter group that naturally acts faithfully and cocompactly on $R^n$ is bounded above by $2n$ and we also show that this bound is optimal. Conjecturally, spherical and affine Coxeter groups are the only Coxeter groups with a uniform bound on reflection length.

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