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Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, let $S=I \dot{\cup} J$ be a partition of $S$ such that no element of $I$ is conjugate to an element of $J$, let $\widetilde{J}$ be the set of $W_I$-conjugates of elements of $J$ and let $\widetilde{W}$ be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-09 Cédric Bonnafé , Matthew J. Dyer

We give a geometric proof that minimal length elements in a (twisted) conjugacy class of a finite Coxeter group $W$ have remarkable properties with respect to conjugation, taking powers in the associated Braid group and taking centralizer…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Xuhua He , Sian Nie

Let $W$ be a Coxeter group and $r\in W$ a reflection. If the group of order 2 generated by $r$ is the intersection of all the maximal finite subgroups of $W$ that contain it, then any isomorphism from $W$ to a Coxeter group $W'$ must take…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. N. Franzsen , R. B. Howlett , B. Mühlherr

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

An element of a Coxeter group $W$ is called fully commutative if any two of its reduced decompositions can be related by a series of transpositions of adjacent commuting generators. In the preprint "Fully commutative elements in finite and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Frédéric Jouhet , Philippe Nadeau

In this article, we establish some new combinatorial properties of cone types in Coxeter groups. Firstly, we show that for any element $x$ in a Coxeter group $W$ and root $\beta$ in its inversion set $\Phi(x)$, the set of elements $y \in W$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yeeka Yau

Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system, and write $S=\{s_i:i\in I\}$, where $I$ is a finite index set. Fix a nonempty convex subset $\mathscr{L}$ of $W$. If $W$ is of type $A$, then $\mathscr{L}$ is the set of linear extensions of a poset, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Grant Barkley , Colin Defant , Eliot Hodges , Noah Kravitz , Mitchell Lee

We introduce a notion of "freely braided element" for simply laced Coxeter groups. We show that an arbitrary group element $w$ has at most $2^{N(w)}$ commutation classes of reduced expressions, where $N(w)$ is a certain statistic defined in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. M. Green , J. Losonczy

Let W be a Coxeter group. We show that a certain power series involving a sum over all involutions in W can be expressed in terms of the Poincare series of W. (The case where W is finite is already known,)

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-17 G. Lusztig

Given an irreducible well-generated complex reflection group W with Coxeter number h, we call a Coxeter element any regular element (in the sense of Springer) of order h in W; this is a slight extension of the most common notion of Coxeter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Victor Reiner , Vivien Ripoll , Christian Stump

For a Coxeter group (W,S), a permutation of the set S is called a Coxeter word and the group element represented by the product is called a Coxeter element. Moving the first letter to the end of the word is called a rotation and two Coxeter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-13 Henrik Eriksson , Kimmo Eriksson

Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system and $\ast$ be an automorphism of $W$ with order $\leq 2$ such that $s^{\ast}\in S$ for any $s\in S$. Let $I_{\ast}$ be the set of twisted involutions relative to $\ast$ in $W$. In this paper we consider the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Jun Hu , Jing Zhang

Let W be an arbitrary Coxeter group. If two elements have expressions that are cyclic shifts of each other (as words), then they are conjugate (as group elements) in W. We say that w is "cyclically fully commutative" (CFC) if every cyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Tomas Boothby , Jeffrey Burkert , Morgan Eichwald , R. M. Green , Dana C. Ernst , Matthew Macauley

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

An element of a Coxeter group W is fully commutative if any two of its reduced decompositions are related by a series of transpositions of adjacent commuting generators. An element of a Coxeter group W is cyclically fully commutative if any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-03 Mathias Pétréolle

Given an involutive automorphism $\theta$ of a Coxeter system $(W,S)$, let $\mathfrak{I}(\theta) \subseteq W$ 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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Mikael Hansson , Axel Hultman

Let X be the group of weights of a maximal torus of a simply connected semisimple group over C and let W be the Weyl group. The semidirect product W(Q\otimes X/X) is called the extended Weyl group. There is a natural C(v)-algebra H called…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-11 G. Lusztig

We introduce the notion of 321-avoiding permutations in the affine Weyl group $W$ of type $A_{n-1}$ by considering the group as a George group (in the sense of Eriksson and Eriksson). This enables us to generalize a result of Billey,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. M. Green

Let $W$ be a finite Coxeter group. We classify the reflection subgroups of $W$ up to conjugacy and give necessary and sufficient conditions for the map that assigns to a reflection subgroup $R$ of $W$ the conjugacy class of its Coxeter…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-26 J. Matthew Douglass , Goetz Pfeiffer , Gerhard Roehrle

Let $(W,S)$ be a Coxeter system and $\Gamma$ be a group of automorphisms of $W$ such that $\gamma(S)=S$ for all $\gamma \in \Gamma$. Then it is known that the group of fixed points $W^\Gamma$ is again a Coxeter group with a canonically…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Meinolf Geck , Lacrimioara Iancu