A curious identity and the volume of the root spherical simplex. With an appendix by John R. Stembridge.

DOI10.4171/RLM/460MaRDI QIDQ997583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Corrado De Concini, Claudio Procesi

Publication date 7 August 2007

Published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/rlm/460

zbMATH Keywords

affine Weyl groupsCoxeter generatorscrystallographic root systemssimple reflectionssimple root systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Root systems (17B22) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35)

Review text

Summary: We show a curious identity on root systems which gives the evaluation of the volume of the spherical simplices cut by the cone generated by simple roots. In the appendix, John Stembridge gives a conceptual proof of our identity.

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