Extremal elements in Coxeter groups and metric commensurators of Kac-Moody groups
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Extremal elements in Coxeter groups and metric commensurators of Kac-Moody groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 1441.20027
author: Bernhard Mühlherr
author: Koen Struyve
published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift
publication date: 2018-03-21T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \((W,S)\) be a Coxeter system. For two elements \(w, v \in W\), the authors write \(w\vartriangleleft v\) if there exists an \(s \in S\) such that \(l(ws) = l(w) + 1\) and \(v = sws\). Hence, \(w\vartriangleleft v\) implies \(l(w) \leq l(v)\). The authors call a non-identity element \(w\) extremal in \((W, S)\) if \(\ell(w) = \ell(v)\) for every sequence \(w=w_0 \vartriangleleft w_1 \vartriangleleft \cdots \vartriangleleft w_k = v\) in \(W\). Two twinnings between two buildings with chamber sets \(\mathcal{C}_+\) and \(\mathcal{C}_-\) are said to be at finite distance if their sets of opposite chamber pairs are at finite Hausdorff distance from each other in \(\mathcal{C}_+ \times \mathcal{C}_-\). The main results that the authors show are the following theorems. Theorem 1. Let \((W, S)\) be an irreducible Coxeter system such that there exists an extremal element \(w \in W\). Then \((W, S)\) is either spherical or affine. Theorem 2. Let \(\Delta_+, \Delta_-\) be two buildings of irreducible type \((W, S)\). If there exist two distinct twinnings at finite distance between them, then there exists an extremal element in \(W\). In particular, \((W, S)\) is spherical or affine. Theorem 3. The metric commensurator of an irreducible Kac-Moody group acting on a product of two non-affine buildings coincides with its normalizer.
reviewed by: Erich W. Ellers
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G44
zbMATH DE Number: 6851627
zbMATH Keywords: Coxeter group
zbMATH Keywords: Kac-Moody group
zbMATH Keywords: commensurator
zbMATH Keywords: building
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s00209-017-1888-x
OpenAlex ID: W2619435759
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DOI: 10.1007/S00209-017-1888-X
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6851627