NORMALIZERS OF PARABOLIC SUBGROUPS OF COXETER GROUPS
NORMALIZERS OF PARABOLIC SUBGROUPS OF COXETER GROUPS
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Coxeter 群抛物线子群的标准化子
DOI:
10.2140/agt.2012.12.1137
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
0.7
通讯作者:
Daniel Allcock
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作者:
Daniel Allcock
We improve a bound of Borcherds on the virtual co- homological dimension of the non-reflection part of the normalizer of a parabolic subgroup of a Coxeter group. Our bound is in terms of the types of the components of the corresponding Coxeter sub- diagram rather than the number of nodes. A consequence is an extension of Brink's result that the non-reflection part of a re- flection centralizer is free. Namely, the non-reflection part of the normalizer of parabolic subgroup of type D5 or Am odd is either free or has a free subgroup of index 2. Supposeis a Coxeter diagram, J is a subdiagram and WJ ⊆ Wis the corresponding inclusion of Coxeter groups. The normalizer NW� (WJ) has been described in detail by Borcherds (3) and Brink- Howlett (5). Such normalizers have significant applications to working out the automorphism groups of Lorentzian lattices and K3 surfaces; see (3) and its references. NW� (WJ) falls into 3 pieces: WJ itself, another Coxeter group W, and a group of diagram automorphisms of W. The last two groups are called the "reflection" and "non-reflection" parts of the normalizer. Borcherds bounded the virtual cohomological dimension of by |J|. Our theorems 1, 3 and 4 give stronger bounds, in terms of the types of the components of J rather than the number of nodes. There are choices involved in the definition of W and , and our bound in theorem 3 applies regardless of how these choices are made (theorem 1 is a special case). Theorem 4 improves this bound when W is "maximal". In this case, when J = D5 or Amodd, turns out to either be free or have an index 2 subgroup that is free. This extends Brink's result (4) that is free when J = A1. The author is grateful to the Clay Mathematics Institute, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Kyoto University for their support and hospitality.