Reflection groups of geodesic spaces and Coxeter groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2005.06.011MaRDI QIDQ2493895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tetsuya Hosaka

Publication date 16 June 2006

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405552

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsgeodesic spacesReflection groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: H.S.M. Coxeter showed that a group $Gamma$ is a finite reflection group of an Euclidean space if and only if $Gamma$ is a finite Coxeter group. In this paper, we define {it reflections} of geodesic spaces in general, and we prove that $Gamma$ is a cocompact discrete reflection group of some geodesic space if and only if $Gamma$ is a Coxeter group.

Review text

\textit{H. S. Coxeter} showed in [Ann. Math. 35, 588--621 (1934; Zbl 0010.01101); J. Lond. Math. Soc. 10, 21--25 (1935; Zbl 0010.34202)] that a group \(\Gamma\) is a finite reflection group of a Euclidean space if and only if \(\Gamma\) is a finite Coxeter group. The author extends this characterization to a general Coxeter group, by using reflections of a geodesic space. An isometry \(r\) of a geodesic space \(X\) is called a reflection of \(X\) if (1) \(r^{2}\) is the identity of \(X\); (2) \(X \setminus F_{r}\) has exactly two convex connected components \(X^{+}_{r}\) and \(X^{-}_{r}\); (3) \(rX^{+}_{r} = X^{-}_{r}\); and (4) \(int F_{r} = \emptyset\), where \(F_{r}\) is the set of fixed points of \(r\). An isometry group \(\Gamma\) of a geodesic space \(X\) is called a reflection group if some set of reflections of \(X\) generates \(\Gamma\). It is known by \textit{M. W. Davis} [Ann. Math. 117, 293--324 (1983; Zbl 0531.57041)] and \textit{G. Moussong} [Hyperbolic Coxeter groups, Ph.D. Thesis, The Ohio State University, (1988)] that every Coxeter group is a cocompact discrete reflection group of some geodesic space. In this paper, the author establishes that this property characterizes Coxeter groups: Theorem: A group \(\Gamma\) is a cocompact discrete reflection group of some geodesic space if and only if \(\Gamma\) is a Coxeter group.

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