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CLASSIFICATION OF REFLECTION SUBGROUPS MINIMALLY CONTAINING $p$-SYLOW SUBGROUPS

Part of: Special aspects of infinite or finite groups Representation theory of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2017

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KANE DOUGLAS TOWNSEND*
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Sydney, Australia email kane.d.townsend@gmail.com
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Abstract

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Let a prime $p$ divide the order of a finite real reflection group. We classify the reflection subgroups up to conjugacy that are minimal with respect to inclusion, subject to containing a $p$-Sylow subgroup. For Weyl groups, this is achieved by an algorithm inspired by the Borel–de Siebenthal algorithm. The cases where there is not a unique conjugacy class of reflection subgroups minimally containing the $p$-Sylow subgroups are the groups of type $F_{4}$ when $p=2$ and $I_{2}(m)$ when $m\geq 6$ is even but not a power of $2$ for each odd prime divisor $p$ of $m$. The classification significantly reduces the cases required to describe the $p$-Sylow subgroups of finite real reflection groups.

Keywords

finite Coxeter groupsreflection subgroupsp-Sylow subgroupsWeyl groups

MSC classification

Primary: 20F55: Reflection and Coxeter groups
Secondary: 20D20: Sylow subgroups, Sylow properties, $pi$-groups, $pi$-structure
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 97 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 57 - 68
Copyright
© 2017 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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