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Invariants of Finite Reflection Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Steinberg
Robert Steinberg*
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Let us define a reflection to be a unitary transformation, other than the identity, which leaves fixed, pointwise, a (reflecting) hyperplane, that is, a subspace of deficiency 1, and a reflection group to be a group generated by reflections. Chevalley (1) (and also Coxeter (2) together with Shephard and Todd (4)) has shown that a reflection group G, acting on a space of n dimensions, possesses a set of n algebraically independent (polynomial) invariants which form a polynomial basis for the set of all invariants of G.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 12 , 1960 , pp. 616 - 618
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1960

References

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