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Coxeter group actions on the complement of hyperplanes and special involutions

Giovanni Felder, A. Veselov (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We consider both standard and twisted actions of a (real) Coxeter group G on the complement G to the complexified reflection hyperplanes by combining the reflections with complex conjugation. We introduce a natural geometric class of special involutions in G and give explicit formulae which describe both actions on the total cohomology H * ( G , 𝒞 ) in terms of these involutions. As a corollary we prove that the corresponding twisted representation is regular only for the symmetric group S n , the Weyl groups...

Coxeter polynomials of Salem trees

Charalampos A. Evripidou (2015)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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 m , . . . , m k for the Coxeter polynomials of the trees , . . . , k respectively, then z is a root for the Coxeter polynomial of their join, of multiplicity at least m i n m - m , . . . , m - m k where m = m + + m k .

Critical constants for recurrence of random walks on G -spaces

Anna Erschler (2005)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We introduce the notion of a critical constant c r t for recurrence of random walks on G -spaces. For a subgroup H of a finitely generated group G the critical constant is an asymptotic invariant of the quotient G -space G / H . We show that for any infinite G -space c r t 1 / 2 . We say that G / H is very small if c r t < 1 . For a normal subgroup H the quotient space G / H is very small if and only if it is finite. However, we give examples of infinite very small G -spaces. We show also that critical constants for recurrence can be used...

Croissance uniforme dans les groupes hyperboliques

Malik Koubi (1998)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

On montre qu’un groupe hyperbolique G non élémentaire est à croissance uniformément exponentielle, c’est-à-dire qu’il existe une constante c G strictement plus grande que 1, ne dépendant que du groupe G , telle que le taux de croissance exponentiel de G relatif à n’importe quel système générateur est plus grand que c G . On redémontre ce faisant qu’un groupe hyperbolique n’a qu’un nombre fini de classes de conjugaison de sous-groupes finis.

Cross ratios, Anosov representations and the energy functional on Teichmüller space

François Labourie (2008)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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...

Cross ratios, surface groups, P S L ( n , 𝐑 ) and diffeomorphisms of the circle

François Labourie (2007)

Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS

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 C 1 , h ( 𝕋 ) Diff h ( 𝕋 ) 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...

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