SOME COMBINATORIAL AND ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES OF COXETER COMPLEXES AND TITS BUILDINGS
SOME COMBINATORIAL AND ALGEBRAIC PROPERTIES OF COXETER COMPLEXES AND TITS BUILDINGS
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DOI:
10.1016/0001-8708(84)90021-5
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
BJORNER, A
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作者:
BJORNER, A
With Coxeter groups and groups with a BN-pair are associated certain combinatorial structures known as Coxeter complexes and Tits buildings. Their theory, which is intimately related to the properties of such groups, has been developed mainly by Tits [39, 40 1. In recent years a general theory of Cohen-Macaulav complexes has taken shape, which relates combinatorial structures with ring theory. The main architects of this development are Hochster [18 (and Stanley (34-37 I. The notion of a shellable complex provides a constructive approach to Cohen-Macaulay complexes in the finite case and has several interesting features of its own. In this paper Coxeter complexes and Tits buildings will be studied from the point of view of shellable and Cohen-Macaulay complexes. It follows from the Solomon-Tits homology computation [31 1 via the work of Reisner [24 1 that a finite building is Cohen-Macaulay. However, neither the Stanley-Reisner ring of a building nor its shellability seem to have been explicitly considered before. It turns out that Coxeter complexes and buildings are very naturally shellable and that shellability provides quick and elementary access to their basic ring-theoretic and topological properties. On the ring-theoretic side this means mainly that with each finite group of Lie (resp. Coxeter) type is canonically associated a certain Cohen-Macaulay (resp. Gorenstein) ring k [x,, x1....,. u, J/Z on which the group acts. This ring is provided with a canonical characteristic-free basis over a certain natural system of parameters. Here k is a field, the indeterminates xi correspond bijectively to the left cosets of a system of maximal parabolic subgroups, and the ideal 1 is generated by all monomials xixj corresponding to pairs of disjoint such cosets. The topological properties of Coxeter complexes and buildings are better known. The principal advantage of the present combinatorial approach is that it leads to a simple and unified treatment which simultaneously includes all type-selected subcomplexes as well.