Incoherent Coxeter Groups
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Abstract:
We use probabilistic methods to prove that many Coxeter groups are incoherent. In particular, this holds for Coxeter groups of uniform exponent $>2$ with sufficiently many generators.References
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Additional Information
- Kasia Jankiewicz
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0B9
- Email: kasia@math.mcgill.ca
- Daniel T. Wise
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0B9
- MR Author ID: 604784
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0128-1353
- Email: wise@math.mcgill.ca
- Received by editor(s): March 10, 2015
- Published electronically: January 26, 2016
- Additional Notes: This research was supported by NSERC
- Communicated by: Kevin Whyte
- © Copyright 2016 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016), 1857-1866
- MSC (2010): Primary 20F55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13013
- MathSciNet review: 3460148