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A new complex reflection group in $PU(9,1)$ and the Barnes-Wall lattice

Representation Theory 2020-08-12 v1

Abstract

We show that the projectivized complex reflection group Γ\Gamma of the unique (1+i)(1+i)-modular Hermitian Z[i]\mathbb{Z}[i]-module of signature (9,1)(9,1) is a new arithmetic reflection group in PU(9,1)PU(9,1). We find 3232 complex reflections of order four generating Γ\Gamma. The mirrors of these 3232 reflections form the vertices of a sort of Coxeter-Dynkin diagram DD for Γ\Gamma that encode Coxeter-type generators and relations for Γ\Gamma. The vertices of DD can be indexed by sixteen points and sixteen affine hyperplanes in F24\mathbb{F}_2^4. The edges of DD are determined by the finite geometry of these points and hyperplanes. The group of automorphisms of the diagram DD is 24 ⁣:(23 ⁣:L3(2)) ⁣:22^4 \colon (2^3 \colon L_3(2)) \colon 2. This group transitively permutes the 3232 mirrors of generating reflections and fixes an unique point τ\tau in CH9\mathbb{C} H^9. These 3232 mirrors are precisely the mirrors closest to τ\tau. 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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