Universal Reflection Subgroups and Exponential Growth in Coxeter Groups

Abstract

We investigate the imaginary cone in hyperbolic Coxeter systems in order to show that any Coxeter system contains universal reflection subgroups of arbitrarily large rank. Furthermore, in the hyperbolic case, the positive spans of the simple roots of the universal reflection subgroups are shown to approximate the imaginary cone (using an appropriate topology on the set of roots), answering a question due to Dyer [9] in the special case of hyperbolic Coxeter systems. Finally, we discuss growth in Coxeter systems and utilize the previous results to extend the results of [16] regarding exponential growth in parabolic quotients in Coxeter groups.

Key Words:

• Coxeter groups
• Exponential growth
• Reflection subgroups
• Root systems

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:

• 20F55

Notes

Communicated by K. Misra.