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Reflection Subquotients of Unitary Reflection Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. I. Lehrer  and
T. A. Springer
G. I. Lehrer
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia email: gusl@maths.usyd.edu.au
T. A. Springer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht, Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands email: springer@math.uu.nl
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Let $G$ be a finite group generated by (pseudo-) reflections in a complex vector space and let $g$ be any linear transformation which normalises $G$. In an earlier paper, the authors showed how to associate with any maximal eigenspace of an element of the coset $gG$, a subquotient of $G$ which acts as a reflection group on the eigenspace. In this work, we address the questions of irreducibility and the coexponents of this subquotient, as well as centralisers in $G$ of certain elements of the coset. A criterion is also given in terms of the invariant degrees of $G$ for an integer to be regular for $G$. A key tool is the investigation of extensions of invariant vector fields on the eigenspace, which leads to some results and questions concerning the geometry of intersections of invariant hypersurfaces.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 51 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1999 , pp. 1175 - 1193
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1999

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