Reflection groups and polytopes over finite fields, II
Abstract
When the standard representation of a crystallographic Coxeter group is reduced modulo an odd prime , a finite representation in some orthogonal space over is obtained. If has a string diagram, the latter group will often be the automorphism group of a finite regular polytope. In Part I we described the basics of this construction and enumerated the polytopes associated with the groups of rank 3 and the groups of spherical or Euclidean type. In this paper, we investigate such families of polytopes for more general choices of , including all groups of rank 4. In particular, we study in depth the interplay between their geometric properties and the algebraic structure of the corresponding finite orthogonal group.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0601502,
title = {Reflection groups and polytopes over finite fields, II},
author = {Barry Monson and Egon Schulte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601502},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
30 pages (Advances in Applied Mathematics, to appear)