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Counting nearest faraway flats for Coxeter chambers

Combinatorics 2022-09-14 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

In a finite Coxeter group WW and with two given conjugacy classes of parabolic subgroups [X][X] and [Y][Y], we count those parabolic subgroups of WW in [Y][Y] that are full support, while simultaneously being simple extensions (i.e., extensions by a single reflection) of some standard parabolic subgroup of WW in [X][X]. The enumeration is given by a product formula that depends only on the two parabolic types. Our derivation is case-free and combines a geometric interpretation of the "full support" property with a double counting argument involving Crapo's beta invariant. As a corollary, this approach gives the first case-free proof of Chapoton's formula for the number of reflections of full support in a real reflection group WW.

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@article{arxiv.2209.06201,
  title  = {Counting nearest faraway flats for Coxeter chambers},
  author = {Theo Douvropoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06201},
  year   = {2022}
}

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