Abelianization of subgroups of reflection groups and their braid groups: an application to cohomology.

DOI10.1007/S00229-011-0438-9zbMATH Open1241.20038arXiv1003.0719OpenAlexW1964268194MaRDI QIDQ644985FDOQ644985

Authors: Vincent Beck 

Publication date: 8 November 2011

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The final result of this article gives the order of the extension ${\displaystyle }$xymatrix{1ar[r] & P/[P,P] ar^{j}[r] & B/[P,P] ar^-{p}[r] & W ar[r] & 1}${\displaystyle }$ as an element of the cohomology group $H^2(W,P/[P,P])$ (where $B$ and $P$ stands for the braid group and the pure braid group associated to the complex reflection group $W$). To obtain this result, we describe the abelianization of the stabilizer $N_H$ of a hyperplane $H$. Contrary to the case of Coxeter groups, $N_H$ is not in general a reflection subgroup of the complex reflection group $W$. So the first step is to refine Stanley-Springer's theorem on the abelianization of a reflection group. The second step is to describe the abelianization of various types of big subgroups of the braid group $B$ of $W$. More precisely, we just need a group homomorphism from the inverse image of $N_H$ by $p$ with values in $QQ$ (where $p:BaW$ is the canonical morphism) but a slight enhancement gives a complete description of the abelianization of $p^{-1}(W^{\prime })$ where $W^{\prime }$ is a reflection subgroup of $W$ or the stabilizer of a hyperplane. We also suggest a lifting construction for every element of the centralizer of a reflection in $W$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0719

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologybraid groupscomplex reflection groupshyperplane arrangementsAbelianizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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• Cohomology of quasi-abelianized braid groups
• Crystallographic groups and flat manifolds from complex reflection groups
• Torsion subgroups of quasi-abelianized braid groups

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• GAP
• CHEVIE

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