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Semi-edges, reflections and Coxeter groups
Author(s):
Ralf
Gramlich;
Georg
W.
Hofmann;
Karl-Hermann
Neeb
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
359
(2007),
3647-3668.
MSC (2000):
Primary 05C25, 20F55, 55U10
Posted:
March 7, 2007
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Abstract:
We combine the theory of Coxeter groups, the covering theory of graphs introduced by Malnic, Nedela and Skoviera and the theory of reflections of graphs in order to obtain the following characterization of a Coxeter group: Let be a -covering of a monopole admitting semi-edges only. The graph is the Cayley graph of a Coxeter group if and only if is regular and any deck transformation in that interchanges two neighboring vertices of acts as a reflection on .
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Additional Information:
Ralf
Gramlich
Affiliation:
TU Darmstadt, FB Mathematik / AG 5, Schloßgartenstraße 7, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Email:
gramlich@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
Georg
W.
Hofmann
Affiliation:
TU Darmstadt, FB Mathematik / AG 5, Schloßgartenstraße 7, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Address at time of publication:
5669 Merkel Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 2J1, Canada
Email:
ghofmann@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de, hofmann@mathstat.dal.ca
Karl-Hermann
Neeb
Affiliation:
TU Darmstadt, FB Mathematik / AG 5, Schloßgartenstraße 7, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Email:
neeb@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04040-8
PII:
S 0002-9947(07)04040-8
Keywords:
Coxeter groups,
coverings of graphs,
reflections on graphs,
voltage spaces
Received by editor(s):
October 27, 2004
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
March 22, 2005
Posted:
March 7, 2007
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2007,
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