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3 - Coxeter Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2009

Peter McMullen
Affiliation:
University College London
Egon Schulte
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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A central role in the theory of abstract regular polytopes is played by an important class of groups known as Coxeter groups. Historically, Coxeter groups made their first appearance as the symmetry groups of the classical regular polytopes and tessellations, or as related reflexion groups [120, Chapter 11]. Since then, they have occurred in many branches of mathematics.

The purpose of the first three sections of this chapter is to review some of the basic properties of Coxeter groups. We shall not give a full exposition of the subject here, but instead focus attention on those results which will be used later. In particular, we shall state most results without proof. For further notes, references, historical remarks, and proofs, the reader is referred to Cohen [81, 82], Coxeter [120], Grove and Benson [195], Hiller [219], Humphreys [222], Koszul [254], and Tits [417].

Then, in Section 3D, we discuss the class of universal regular polytopes {p1, …, pn-1}, which includes the traditional convex regular polytopes as well as the euclidean or hyperbolic regular tessellations. Finally, in Section 3E, we describe how the Brianchon—Gram theorem for angle sums of convex polytopes can be employed to calculate the order of a finite Coxeter group in a purely elementary manner.

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Print publication year: 2002

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  • Coxeter Groups
  • Peter McMullen, University College London, Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Abstract Regular Polytopes
  • Online publication: 20 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546686.004
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  • Peter McMullen, University College London, Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Abstract Regular Polytopes
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546686.004
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  • Coxeter Groups
  • Peter McMullen, University College London, Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: Abstract Regular Polytopes
  • Online publication: 20 August 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546686.004
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