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We enumerate Hurwitz orbits of shortest reflection factorizations of an arbitrary element in the infinite family $G(m, p, n)$ of complex reflection groups. As a consequence, we characterize the elements for which the action is transitive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Joel Brewster Lewis , Jiayuan Wang

We prove that the Hurwitz action on reflection factorizations of Coxeter elements is transitive up to certain natural constraints in the complex reflection groups G4 and G5. This affirms a more general conjecture by Lewis and Reiner in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Zachery Peterson

Coxeter and Dynkin diagrams classify a wide variety of structures, most notably finite reflection groups, lattices having such groups as symmetries, compact simple Lie groups and complex simple Lie algebras. The simply laced or "ADE" Dynkin…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-06 John C. Baez

The differential cross-section for the reflection of light beams off rigid bodies obtained by the rotation of a generic derivable convex function is calculated. The calculation is developed using elementary notions of calculus and is…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-03-05 Marco Giliberti , Luca Perotti

We establish recursions counting various classes of chains in the noncrossing partition lattice of a finite Coxeter group. The recursions specialize a general relation which is proven uniformly (i.e. without appealing to the classification…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Nathan Reading

We study Coxeter diagrams of some unitary reflection groups. Using solely the combinatorics of diagrams, we give a new proof of the classification of root lattices defined over $\cE = \ZZ[e^{2 \pi i/3}]$: there are only four such lattices,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Tathagata Basak

Each element of the commutator subgroup of a group can be represented as a product of commutators. The minimal number of factors in such a product is called the commutator length of the element. The commutator length of a group is defined…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Entov

A group element is called a generalized torsion if a finite product of its conjugates is equal to the identity. We prove that in a nilpotent or FC-group, the generalized torsion elements are all torsion elements. Moreover, we compute the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Raimundo Bastos , Csaba Schneider , Danilo Silveira

A family of polynomials parameterized by the conjugacy classes of a finite Coxeter group is investigated. These polynomials, together with the character table of the group, determine the associated generic degrees. The polynomials are…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dean Alvis

Reflectometry is a technique that uses the light reflected by a sample to determine properties of the sample. Interferometric reflectometry uses interference between two beams, one of which is incident on ---and reflected back by--- a…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-10 Alexander Nahmad-Rohen , Wolfgang Langbein

Properties of relative traces and symmetrizing forms on chains of cyclotomic and affine Hecke algebras are studied. The study relies on a use of bases of these algebras which generalize a normal form for elements of the complex reflection…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-18 O. V. Ogievetsky , L. Poulain d'Andecy

We prove Thompson's group $F$ has quadratic conjugator length function. That is, for any two conjugate elements of $F$ of length $n$ or less, there exists an element of $F$ of length $O(n^2)$ that conjugates one to the other. Moreover,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-28 James Belk , Francesco Matucci

We first review some invariant theoretic results about the finite subgroups of SU(2) in a quick algebraic way by using the McKay correspondence and quantum affine Cartan matrices. By the way it turns out that some parameters (a,b,h;p,q,r)…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruedi Suter

We consider the problem of homogenizing the Maxwell equations for periodic composites. The analysis is based on Bloch-Floquet theory. We calculate explicitly the reflection coefficient for a half-space, and derive and implement a…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

The classical Hurwitz numbers count the fixed-length transitive transposition factorizations of a permutation, with a remarkable product formula for the case of minimum length (genus $0$). We study the analogue of these numbers for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-17 Theo Douvropoulos , Joel Brewster Lewis , Alejandro H. Morales

We calculate the minimal degree for a class of finite complex reflection groups $G(p,p,q)$, for $p$ and $q$ primes and establish relationships between minimal degrees when these groups are taken in a direct product.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-14 Neil Saunders

Certain classical generating functions for elements of reflection groups can be expressed using fundamental invariants called exponents. We give new analogues of such generating functions that accommodate orbits of reflecting hyperplanes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Nathan Williams

A group of isometries of a hyperbolic $n$-space is called a reflection group if it is generated by reflections in hyperbolic hyperplanes. Vinberg gave a semi-algorithm for finding a maximal reflection sublattice in a given arithmetic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Mikhail Belolipetsky , Michael Kapovich

In this article, we first show that in case $n$ is even which Coxeter element in $\mathfrak{S}_{n}$ affords the longest by taking its power to $n/2$. We also show that in case $n$ is odd which Coxeter element affords the longest in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Masashi Kosuda

We introduce a notion of essential hyperbolic Coxeter polytope as a polytope which fits some minimality conditions. The problem of classification of hyperbolic reflection groups can be easily reduced to classification of essential Coxeter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Anna Felikson , Pavel Tumarkin