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In this paper, we study the structure of finite groups with a large number of conjugacy classes of $p$-elements for some prime $p$. As consequences, we obtain some new criteria for the existence of normal $p$-complements in finite groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Hung P. Tong-Viet

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

We introduce the annex of an element $x$ in a Coxeter group as the set of elements $y$ such that $x \nleq y$ with respect to Bruhat order. This notion provides a complementary perspective to the study of Bruhat intervals and their…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Megan Masters

We propose a general conjecture on decompositions of finite simple groups as products of conjugates of an arbitrary subset. We prove this conjecture for bounded subsets of arbitrary finite simple groups, and for large subsets of groups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Martin Liebeck , Nikolay Nikolov , Aner Shalev

Kottwitz' conjecture is concerned with the intersections of Kazhdan--Lusztig cells with conjugacy classes of involutions in finite Coxeter groups. In joint work with Bonnaf\'e, we have recently found a way to prove this conjecture for…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Meinolf Geck

We prove that two reflection factorizations of a parabolic quasi-Coxeter element in a finite Coxeter group belong to the same Hurwitz orbit if and only if they generate the same subgroup and have the same multiset of conjugacy classes. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Theo Douvropoulos , Joel Brewster Lewis

We summarize several results about non-simplicity, solvability and normal structure of finite groups related to the number of conjugacy classes appearing in the product or the power of conjugacy classes. We also collect some problems that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Antonio Beltrán , María José Felipe , Carmen Melchor

We continue our investigation of binary actions of simple groups. In this paper, we demonstrate a connection between the graph $\Gamma(\mathcal{C})$ based on the conjugacy class $\mathcal{C}$ of the group $G$, which was introduced in our…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Nick Gill , Pierre Guillot

A finite subgroup of $GL(n,\mathbb C)$ is involutory if the sum of the dimensions of its irreducible complex representations is given by the number of absolute involutions in the group. A uniform combinatorial model is constructed for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-25 Fabrizio Caselli

In this article, we investigate the existence of joins in the weak order of an infinite Coxeter group W. We give a geometric characterization of the existence of a join for a subset X in W in terms of the inversion sets of its elements and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Christophe Hohlweg , Jean-Philippe Labbé

In recent work, the second author introduced the concept of Coxeter quivers, generalizing several previous notions of a quiver representation. Finite type Coxeter quivers were classified, and their indecomposable objects were shown to be in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Ben Elias , Edmund Heng

We show that the class of $\mathcal{C}$-hereditarily conjugacy separable groups is closed under taking arbitrary graph products whenever the class $\mathcal{C}$ is an extension closed variety of finite groups. As a consequence we show that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Michal Ferov

The purpose of this article is to shed new light on the combinatorial structure of Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in infinite Coxeter groups $W$. Our main focus is the set $\D$ of distinguished involutions in $W$, which was introduced by Lusztig in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-16 Mikhail V. Belolipetsky , Paul E. Gunnells

A Coxeter group admits infinite-dimensional irreducible complex representations if and only if it is not finite or affine. In this paper, we provide a construction of some of those representations for certain Coxeter groups using some…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Hongsheng Hu

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

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. These elements were extensively studied by Stembridge, in particular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Riccardo Biagioli , Frédéric Jouhet , Philippe Nadeau

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

Let $(W, R)$ be a Coxeter system and let $w \in W$. We say that $u$ is a prefix of $w$ if there is a reduced expression for $u$ that can be extended to one for $w$. That is, $w = uv$ for some $v$ in $W$ such that $\ell(w) = \ell(u) +…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Sarah B. Hart , Peter J. Rowley

In this thesis, we study the combinatorics of cyclically fully commutative elements in Coxeter groups of type $A$ as it relates to conjugacy. In particular, we introduce the notion of cylindrical heaps and ring equivalence in order to state…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Brooke Fox

An element of a group is \emph{reversible} if it is conjugate to its own inverse, and it is \emph{strongly reversible} if it is conjugate to its inverse by an involution. A group element is strongly reversible if and only if it can be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Nick Gill , Ian Short