Covering abelian groups with cyclic subsets.
We consider both standard and twisted actions of a (real) Coxeter group on the complement to the complexified reflection hyperplanes by combining the reflections with complex conjugation. We introduce a natural geometric class of special involutions in and give explicit formulae which describe both actions on the total cohomology in terms of these involutions. As a corollary we prove that the corresponding twisted representation is regular only for the symmetric group , the Weyl groups...
We compute the Coxeter polynomial of a family of Salem trees, and also the limit of the spectral radii of their Coxeter transformations as the number of their vertices tends to infinity. We also prove that if z is a root of multiplicities for the Coxeter polynomials of the trees respectively, then z is a root for the Coxeter polynomial of their join, of multiplicity at least where .
We introduce the notion of a critical constant for recurrence of random walks on -spaces. For a subgroup of a finitely generated group the critical constant is an asymptotic invariant of the quotient -space . We show that for any infinite -space . We say that is very small if . For a normal subgroup the quotient space is very small if and only if it is finite. However, we give examples of infinite very small -spaces. We show also that critical constants for recurrence can be used...
On montre qu’un groupe hyperbolique non élémentaire est à croissance uniformément exponentielle, c’est-à-dire qu’il existe une constante strictement plus grande que 1, ne dépendant que du groupe , telle que le taux de croissance exponentiel de relatif à n’importe quel système générateur est plus grand que . On redémontre ce faisant qu’un groupe hyperbolique n’a qu’un nombre fini de classes de conjugaison de sous-groupes finis.
We study two classes of linear representations of a surface group: Hitchin and maximal symplectic representations. We relate them to cross ratios and thus deduce that they are displacing which means that their translation lengths are roughly controlled by the translations lengths on the Cayley graph. As a consequence, we show that the mapping class group acts properly on the space of representations and that the energy functional associated to such a representation is proper. This implies the existence...
This article relates representations of surface groups to cross ratios. We first identify a connected component of the space of representations into PSL(n,ℝ) – known as the n-Hitchin component– to a subset of the set of cross ratios on the boundary at infinity of the group. Similarly, we study some representations into associated to cross ratios and exhibit a “character variety” of these representations. We show that this character variety contains alln-Hitchin components as well as the set of...