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A word property for twisted involutions in Coxeter groups

Combinatorics 2017-04-28 v1

Abstract

Given an involutive automorphism θ\theta of a Coxeter system (W,S)(W,S), let I(θ)W\mathfrak{I}(\theta) \subseteq W denote the set of twisted involutions. We provide a minimal set of moves that can be added to the braid moves, in order to connect all reduced S\underline{S}-expressions (also known as admissible sequences, reduced IθI_\theta-expressions, or involution words) for any given wI(θ)w \in \mathfrak{I}(\theta). This can be viewed as an analogue of the well-known word property for Coxeter groups. It improves upon a result of Hamaker, Marberg, and Pawlowski, and generalises similar statements valid in certain types due to Hu, Zhang, Wu, and Marberg.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08329,
  title  = {A word property for twisted involutions in Coxeter groups},
  author = {Mikael Hansson and Axel Hultman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08329},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 3 figures