Parabolic subgroup invariance conjecture for reduced reflection expressions

Let WW be a Coxeter group with reflection set TT, and let RedT(w){\mathrm{Red}_T}(w) denote the set of minimal-length expressions of ww as a product of reflections. Suppose that

(t1,t2,,tk)RedT(w)(t_1,t_2,\dots,t_k)\in {\mathrm{Red}_T}(w)

and that W:=t1,t2,,tkW':=\langle t_1,t_2,\dots,t_k\rangle is parabolic. Parabolic subgroup invariance conjecture. For every

(q1,q2,,qk)RedT(w),(q_1,q_2,\dots,q_k)\in {\mathrm{Red}_T}(w),

we have

W=q1,q2,,qk.W'=\langle q_1,q_2,\dots,q_k\rangle.

The conjecture asserts that whenever one reduced reflection expression generates a parabolic subgroup, the subgroup generated by the reflections in every reduced expression of the same element is identical. The surrounding results establish that parabolic subgroups preserve reflection length under passage to their canonical reflection sets; whether this stronger invariance statement holds in general is left open here.

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Primary source

Thomas Gobet, “On cycle decompositions in Coxeter groups”, arXiv:1611.03442 (2016).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1502.06380.

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