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We give a short proof, based on symmetric function theory, of a formula due to Goupil and Schaeffer, counting the number of factorizations of a cycle of maximal length in the symmetric group, into the product of two permutations of given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Philippe Biane

We extend the usual notion of fully commutative elements from the Coxeter groups to the complex reflection groups. Then we decompose the sets of fully commutative elements into natural subsets according to their combinatorial properties,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Gabriel Feinberg , Sungsoon Kim , Kyu-Hwan Lee , Se-jin Oh

We show that the Hurwitz action is "as transitive as possible" on reflection factorizations of Coxeter elements in the well-generated complex reflection groups $G(d, 1, n)$ (the group of $d$-colored permutations) and $G(d, d, n)$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-29 Joel Brewster Lewis

Let W be a finite group generated by unitary reflections and A be the set of reflecting hyperplanes. We will give a characterization of the logarithmic differential forms with poles along A in terms of anti-invariant differential forms. If…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hiroaki Terao , Anne V. Shepler

Reflection length and codimension of fixed point spaces induce partial orders on a complex reflection group. While these partial orders are of independent combinatorial interest, our investigation is motivated by a connection between the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-02 Briana Foster-Greenwood

Real physical systems with reflective and rotational symmetries such as viruses, fullerenes and quasicrystals have recently been modeled successfully in terms of three-dimensional (affine) Coxeter groups. Motivated by this progress, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Pierre-Philippe Dechant

We present a formula relating the set of left descents of an element of a Coxeter group with the sets of left descents of its projections on maximal quotients indexed by simple right descents. This formula is an instance of a general result…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Paolo Sentinelli

We study normal reflection subgroups of complex reflection groups. Our approach leads to a refinement of a theorem of Orlik and Solomon to the effect that the generating function for fixed-space dimension over a reflection group is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Carlos E. Arreche , Nathan F. Williams

We show that for a parabolic quasi-Coxeter element in an affine Coxeter group the Hurwitz action on its set of reduced factorizations into a product of reflections is transitive. We call an element of the Coxeter group parabolic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-27 Patrick Wegener

In this note, we characterize affine and non-affine Coxeter systems among all Coxeter systems in terms of the structure of their reflection orders. For an infinite irreducible system $(W,S)$, we show that affineness can be characterized in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Weijia Wang , Rui Wang

We give formulas for the second and third integral homology of an arbitrary finitely generated Coxeter group, solely in terms of the corresponding Coxeter diagram. The first of these calculations refines a theorem of Howlett, while the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Rachael Boyd

We study the exactness of certain combinatorially defined complexes which generalize the Orlik-Solomon algebra of a geometric lattice. The main results pertain to complex reflection arrangements and their restrictions. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Tobias Finis , Erez Lapid

A complete system of primitive pairwise orthogonal idempotents for the Coxeter groups of type $B$ and, more generally, for the complex reflection groups $G(m,1,n)$ is constructed by a sequence of evaluations of a rational function in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-27 O. V. Ogievetsky , L. Poulain d'Andecy

The invariants of finite-dimensional representations of simple Lie algebras, such as even-degree indices and anomaly numbers, are considered in the context of the non-crystallographic finite reflection groups $H_2$, $H_3$ and $H_4$. Using a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Mariia Myronova , Jiri Patera , Marzena Szajewska

Given a reflection $r$ in a Coxeter group $W$ (possibly of infinite rank), we consider the subgroup of $W$ generated by the reflections in $W$ having (-1)-eigenvectors orthogonal to the (-1)-eigenvector of $r$. In this paper, we determine…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Koji Nuida

The isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups has been reduced to its 'reflection preserving version' by B. Howlett and the second author. Thus, in order to solve it, it suffices to determine for a given Coxeter system (W,R) all Coxeter…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Timothée Marquis , Bernhard Mühlherr

This paper examines a systematic method to construct a pair of (inter-related) root systems for arbitrary Coxeter groups from a class of non-standard geometric representations. This method can be employed to construct generalizations of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Xiang Fu

Let W be an arbitrary Coxeter group of simply-laced type (possibly infinite but of finite rank), u,v be any two elements in W, and i be a reduced word (of length m) for the pair (u,v) in the Coxeter group W\times W. We associate to i a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Boris Shapiro , Michael Shapiro , Alek Vainshtein , Andrei Zelevinsky

The depth statistic was defined by Petersen and Tenner for an element of an arbitrary Coxeter group in terms of factorizations of the element into a product of reflections. It can also be defined as the minimal cost, given certain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Eli Bagno , Riccardo Biagioli , Mordechai Novick , Alexander Woo

We compute the cohomology with group ring coefficients of the complement of a finite collection of affine hyperplanes in a finite dimensional complex vector space. It is nonzero in exactly one degree, namely the degree equal to the rank of…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-23 Michael W Davis , Tadeusz Januszkiewicz , Ian J Leary , Boris Okun