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The book is the first to give a comprehensive overview of the techniques and tools currently being used in the study of combinatorial problems in Coxeter groups. It is self-contained, and accessible even to advanced undergraduate students of mathematics. The primary purpose of the book is to highlight approximations to the difficult isomorphism problem in Coxeter groups. A number of theorems relating to this problem are stated and proven. Most of the results addressed here concern conditions which can be seen as varying degrees of uniqueness of representations of Coxeter groups. Throughout the

Coxeter groups. --- Isomorphisms (Mathematics) --- Categories (Mathematics) --- Group theory --- Morphisms (Mathematics) --- Set theory --- Coxeter's groups --- Real reflection groups --- Reflection groups, Real

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The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups is a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of Coxeter groups from the viewpoint of geometric group theory. Groups generated by reflections are ubiquitous in mathematics, and there are classical examples of reflection groups in spherical, Euclidean, and hyperbolic geometry. Any Coxeter group can be realized as a group generated by reflection on a certain contractible cell complex, and this complex is the principal subject of this book. The book explains a theorem of Moussong that demonstrates that a polyhedral metric on this cell complex is nonpositively curved, meaning that Coxeter groups are "CAT(0) groups." The book describes the reflection group trick, one of the most potent sources of examples of aspherical manifolds. And the book discusses many important topics in geometric group theory and topology, including Hopf's theory of ends; contractible manifolds and homology spheres; the Poincaré Conjecture; and Gromov's theory of CAT(0) spaces and groups. Finally, the book examines connections between Coxeter groups and some of topology's most famous open problems concerning aspherical manifolds, such as the Euler Characteristic Conjecture and the Borel and Singer conjectures.

512.54 --- 512.54 Groups. Group theory --- Groups. Group theory --- Coxeter groups --- Geometric group theory --- Coxeter's groups --- Real reflection groups --- Reflection groups, Real --- Group theory --- Coxeter groups. --- Geometric group theory.

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This monograph provides a comprehensive introduction to the Kazhdan-Lusztig theory of cells in the broader context of the unequal parameter case. Serving as a useful reference, the present volume offers a synthesis of significant advances made since Lusztig’s seminal work on the subject was published in 2002. The focus lies on the combinatorics of the partition into cells for general Coxeter groups, with special attention given to induction methods, cellular maps and the role of Lusztig's conjectures. Using only algebraic and combinatorial methods, the author carefully develops proofs, discusses open conjectures, and presents recent research, including a chapter on the action of the cactus group. Kazhdan-Lusztig Cells with Unequal Parameters will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in related subject areas, such as Lie theory, representation theory, and combinatorics of Coxeter groups. Useful examples and various exercises make this book suitable for self-study and use alongside lecture courses.

Mathematics. --- Group theory. --- Group Theory and Generalizations. --- Hecke algebras. --- Coxeter groups. --- Representations of algebras. --- Algebra --- Coxeter's groups --- Real reflection groups --- Reflection groups, Real --- Group theory --- Algebras, Hecke --- Group algebras --- Groups, Theory of --- Substitutions (Mathematics)

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The book deals with fundamental structural aspects of algebraic and simple groups, Coxeter groups and the related geometries and buildings. All contributing authors are very active researchers in the topics related to the theme of the book. Some of the articles provide the latest developments in the subject; some provide an overview of the current status of some important problems in this area; some survey an area highlighting the current developments; and some provide an exposition of an area to collect problems and conjectures. It is hoped that these articles would be helpful to a beginner to start independent research on any of these topics, as well as to an expert to know some of the latest developments or to consider some problems for investigation.

Finite groups --- Finite geometries --- Coxeter groups. --- Coxeter's groups --- Real reflection groups --- Reflection groups, Real --- Group theory --- Geometries, Finite --- Combinatorial geometry --- Finite geometries. --- Finite groups. --- Geometry. --- Mathematics. --- Group theory. --- Geometry, algebraic. --- Group Theory and Generalizations. --- Algebraic Geometry. --- Mathematics --- Euclid's Elements --- Algebraic geometry --- Geometry --- Groups, Theory of --- Substitutions (Mathematics) --- Algebra --- Algebraic geometry.