Abstract
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 element. We show that the class of these Coxeter elements forms a single orbit in W under the action of reflection automorphisms. For Coxeter and Shephard groups, this implies that an element c is a Coxeter element if and only if there exists a simple system S of reflections such that c is the product of the generators in S. We moreover deduce multiple further implications of this property. In particular, we obtain that all noncrossing partition lattices of W associated to different Coxeter elements are isomorphic. We also prove that there is a simply transitive action of the Galois group of the field of definition of W on the set of conjugacy classes of Coxeter elements. Finally, we extend several of these properties to regular elements of arbitrary order.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 109-120 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | 27th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, FPSAC 2015 - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of Duration: Jul 6 2015 → Jul 10 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), Nancy, France.
Keywords
- Coxeter elements
- Coxeter groups
- Noncrossing partitions
- Reflection groups
- Shephard groups