A new complex reflection group in $PU(9,1)$ and the Barnes-Wall lattice
Abstract
We show that the projectivized complex reflection group of the unique -modular Hermitian -module of signature is a new arithmetic reflection group in . We find complex reflections of order four generating . The mirrors of these reflections form the vertices of a sort of Coxeter-Dynkin diagram for that encode Coxeter-type generators and relations for . The vertices of can be indexed by sixteen points and sixteen affine hyperplanes in . The edges of are determined by the finite geometry of these points and hyperplanes. The group of automorphisms of the diagram is . This group transitively permutes the mirrors of generating reflections and fixes an unique point in . These mirrors are precisely the mirrors closest to . These results are strikingly similar to the results satisfied by the complex hyperbolic reflection group at the center of Allcock's monstrous proposal.
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@article{arxiv.1804.05778,
title = {A new complex reflection group in $PU(9,1)$ and the Barnes-Wall lattice},
author = {Tathagata Basak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05778},
year = {2020}
}
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