Counting nearest faraway flats for Coxeter chambers
Combinatorics
2022-09-14 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
In a finite Coxeter group and with two given conjugacy classes of parabolic subgroups and , we count those parabolic subgroups of in that are full support, while simultaneously being simple extensions (i.e., extensions by a single reflection) of some standard parabolic subgroup of in . The enumeration is given by a product formula that depends only on the two parabolic types. Our derivation is case-free and combines a geometric interpretation of the "full support" property with a double counting argument involving Crapo's beta invariant. As a corollary, this approach gives the first case-free proof of Chapoton's formula for the number of reflections of full support in a real reflection group .
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@article{arxiv.2209.06201,
title = {Counting nearest faraway flats for Coxeter chambers},
author = {Theo Douvropoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06201},
year = {2022}
}
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16 pages, comments very much welcome!