Theorem 1
Tag 0AQ4, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0AQ4].
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter V, § 3. Groups of displacements generated by reflections
Let be a chamber and let be the set of reflections with respect to the walls of .
(i) The pair is a Coxeter system.
(ii) Let and let be a wall of . The relation implies that the chambers and are on the same side of .
(iii) For any chamber , there exists a unique element such that .
(iv) The set of hyperplanes such that is equal to .
Every element of is of order 2 and Lemma 2 shows that generates . For any wall of , denote by the set of elements such that the chambers and (which do not meet ) are on the same side of . We shall verify conditions (A'), (B') and (C) of Chap. IV, § 1, no. 7.
(A') : Trivial.
(B') and are disjoint: Indeed, and are on opposite sides of , so if is on the same side of as , it is not on the same side as .
(C) Let and let be a wall of such that ; then : By assumption, is on the same side of as and is on the other side. Thus, and are on opposite sides of H; hence, the chambers and C are on opposite sides of the hyperplane . Let be a point of the face of C with support . The point is in the closure of the two chambers C and that are contained respectively in the two open half-spaces bounded by ; thus, , so . From this we deduce that , hence .
Assertions (i) and (ii) follow from this and Prop. 6 of Chap. IV, § 1, no. 7. Moreover, we have (loc. cit., condition (A))
Lemma 2 shows that W acts transitively on the set of chambers. Moreover, if is such that , then for every wall H of C, hence by (3). This proves (iii).
Finally, let H be a hyperplane such that . If H did not belong to , there would be at least one chamber meeting H (§ 1, no. 3, Prop. 7). Every point of is invariant under , and thus belongs to the chambers and ; thus, , which contradicts (iii) since .
Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.
Cited by
- Corollary, § 3
- Remark 2, § 3
- Proposition 2, § 3
- Proposition 1, § 6
- Theorem 2, § 1
- Proposition 2, § 2
- § 4. Classification of root systems