Bourbaki

Proposition 7

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Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter IV, § 1. Coxeter Groups

Let ww be in WW. There exists a subset SwS_w of SS such that {s1,…,sq}=Sw\{s_1, \ldots, s_q\} = S_w for any reduced decomposition (s1,…,sq)(s_1, \ldots, s_q) of ww.

Denote by MM the monoid consisting of the subsets of SS with the composition law (A,B)↦A∪B(A, B) \mapsto A \cup B; the identity element of MM is ∅\varnothing. Put f(s)={s}f(s) = \{s\} for s∈Ss \in S. We are going to apply Prop. 5 of no. 5 to MM and ff. We have a(s,s′)={s,s′}a(s, s') = \{s, s'\} for s,s′s, s' in SS if m(s,s′)m(s, s') is finite, hence there exists a map g:w↦Swg : w \mapsto S_w from WW to MM such that g(w)=f(s1)∪⋯∪f(sq)g(w) = f(s_1) \cup \cdots \cup f(s_q), that is Sw={s1,…,sq}S_w = \{s_1, \ldots, s_q\} for any w∈Ww \in W and any reduced decomposition (s1,…,sq)(s_1, \ldots, s_q) of ww.

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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