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Root systems for asymmetric geometric representations of Coxeter groups

Group Theory 2009-12-30 v3

Abstract

Results are obtained concerning the roots of asymmetric geometric representations of Coxeter groups. These representations were independently introduced by Vinberg and Eriksson, and generalize the standard geometric representation of a Coxeter group in such a way as to include all Kac--Moody Weyl groups. In particular, a characterization of when a non-trivial multiple of a root may also be a root is given in the general context. Characterizations of when the number of such multiples of a root is finite and when the number of positive roots sent to negative roots by a group element is finite are also given. These characterizations are stated in terms of combinatorial conditions on a graph closely related to the Coxeter graph for the group. Other finiteness results for the symmetric case which are connected to the Tits cone and to a natural partial order on positive roots are extended to this asymmetric setting.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3310,
  title  = {Root systems for asymmetric geometric representations of Coxeter groups},
  author = {Robert G. Donnelly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3310},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

References updated; connections to the literature sharpened; some applications further developed. 15 pages, 1 figure

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