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Let $W$ be an arbitrary Coxeter group, possibly of infinite rank. We describe a decomposition of the centralizer $Z_W(W_I)$ of an arbitrary parabolic subgroup $W_I$ into the center of $W_I$, a Coxeter group and a subgroup defined by a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-10 Koji Nuida

Let (W,S) be a finite rank Coxeter system with W infinite. We prove that the limit weak order on the blocks of infinite reduced words of W is encoded by the topology of the Tits boundary of the Davis complex X of W. We consider many special…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Thomas Lam , Anne Thomas

We study the quiver of the descent algebra of a finite Coxeter group W. The results include a derivation of the quiver of the descent algebra of types A and B. Our approach is to study the descent algebra as an algebra constructed from the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-09 Franco V. Saliola

For any Coxeter group W, we define a filtration of H^*(W;ZW) by W-submodules and then compute the associated graded terms. More generally, if U is a CW complex on which W acts as a reflection group we compute the associated graded terms for…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-04-23 Michael W Davis , Jan Dymara , Tadeusz Januszkiewicz , Boris Okun

Recently, Wang and the second author constructed a bar involution and canonical basis for a quasi-permutation module of the Hecke algebra associated to a type B Weyl group $W$, where the basis is parameterized by left cosets of a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Zachary Carlini , Yaolong Shen

For an infinite Coxeter system, one can extend the weak right order to the set of infinite reduced words. This is called limit weak order. In [Transformation Groups 18(1), 2013, 179-231], Lam and Pylyavskyy showed that for affine Weyl…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Weijia Wang

Let $G$ be a finite abelian group with $\exp(G)$ the exponent of $G$. Then $\mathsf W(G)$ denotes the set of cross numbers of minimal zero-sum sequences over $G$ and $\mathsf w(G)$ denotes the set of all cross numbers of non-trivial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Aqsa Bashir , Wolfgang A. Schmid

Suppose that W is a finite, unitary, reflection group acting on the complex vector space V and X is a subspace of V. Define N to be the setwise stabilizer of X in W, Z to be the pointwise stabilizer, and C=N/Z. Then restriction defines a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-01 J. Matthew Douglass , Gerhard Roehrle

We combinatorially characterize the number $\mathrm{cc}_2$ of conjugacy classes of involutions in any Coxeter group in terms of higher rank odd graphs. This notion naturally generalizes the concept of odd graphs, used previously to count…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Anna Michael , Yuri Santos Rego , Petra Schwer , Olga Varghese

Let (W,S) be an infinite Coxeter system. To each geometric representation of W is associated a root system. While a root system lives in the positive side of the isotropy cone of its associated bilinear form, an imaginary cone lives in the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Matthew Dyer , Christophe Hohlweg , Vivien Ripoll

We study different problems related to the Solomon's descent algebra $\Sigma(W)$ of a finite Coxeter group $(W,S)$: positive elements, morphisms between descent algebras, Loewy length... One of the main result is that, if $W$ is irreducible…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-30 Cédric Bonnafé , Götz Pfeiffer

A Coxeter system is an ordered pair (W,S) where S is the generating set in a particular type of presentation for the Coxeter group W. A subgroup of W is called special if it is generated by a subset of S. Amalgamated product decompositions…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Mihalik , Steven Tschantz

Let W be a Coxeter group and L be a weight function on W. Following Lusztig, we have a corresponding decomposition of W into left cells, which have important applications in representation theory. We study the case where $W$ is an affine…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-30 Jeremie Guilhot

Here, for $W$ the Coxeter group $\mathrm{D}_n$ where $n > 4$, it is proved that the maximal rank of an abstract regular polytope for $W$ is $n - 1$ if $n$ is even and $n$ if $n$ is odd. Further it is shown that $W$ has abstract regular…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Malcolm Hoong Wai Chen , Peter Rowley

Given a finite irreducible Coxeter group $W$ with a fixed Coxeter element $c$, we define the Coxeter pop-tsack torsing operator $\mathsf{Pop}_T:W\to W$ by $\mathsf{Pop}_T(w)=w\cdot\pi_T(w)^{-1}$, where $\pi_T(w)$ is the join in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Colin Defant , Nathan Williams

We define the notion of a climbing element in a finite real reflection group relative to a total order on the reflection set and we characterise these elements in the case where the total order arises from a bipartite Coxeter element.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-06 Thomas Brady , Aisling Kenny , And Colum Watt

In a discrete group generated by hyperplane reflections in the $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space, the reflection length of an element is the minimal number of hyperplane reflections in the group that suffices to factor the element. For a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Marco Lotz

Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, and let $X$ be a subset of $S$. The subgroup of $W$ generated by $X$ is denoted by $W_X$ and is called a parabolic subgroup. We give the precise definition of the commensurator of a subgroup in a group. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Luis Paris

We revisit the structure of the normalizer $N_W(P)$ of a parabolic subgroup $P$ in a finite Coxeter group $W$, originally described by Howlett. Building on Howlett's Lemma, which provides canonical complements for reflection subgroups, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-30 J. Matthew Douglass , Götz Pfeiffer , Gerhard Roehrle

In this fourth part, (with the notations of the preceding parts) we make the following hypothesis: $(W,S)$ is a Coxeter system, irreducible, $2$-spherical and $S$ is finite. Let $R:W\to GL(M)$ be a reducible reflection representation of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 François Zara