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Commensurators of parabolic subgroups of Coxeter groups
Author(s):
Luis
Paris
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
125
(1997),
731-738.
MSC (1991):
Primary 20F55
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Let be a Coxeter system, and let be a subset of . The subgroup of generated by is denoted by and is called a parabolic subgroup. We give the precise definition of the commensurator of a subgroup in a group. In particular, the commensurator of in is the subgroup of in such that has finite index in both and . The subgroup can be decomposed in the form where is finite and all the irreducible components of are infinite. Let be the set of in such that for all . We prove that the commensurator of is . In particular, the commensurator of a parabolic subgroup is a parabolic subgroup, and is its own commensurator if and only if .
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Luis
Paris
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Topologie, Département de Mathématiques, Université de Bourgogne, U.M.R. 5584, B.P. 138, 21004 Dijon Cedex, France
Email:
lparis@satie.u-bourgogne.fr
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03815-X
PII:
S 0002-9939(97)03815-X
Received by editor(s):
October 17, 1995
Communicated by:
Ronald M. Solomon
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1997,
American Mathematical Society
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