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Statement
Let , let , let with coordinate basis , and let be the real Coxeter form. Thus the diagram is the two-vertex standard affine diagram with its single -edge (The standard affine diagrams A-tilde, B-tilde, C-tilde, D-tilde, E-tilde, F-tilde and G-tilde (1)), and (The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps (2)). Then:
(i) The degenerate form. is positive semidefinite of corank one, with for . The product of the two generator reflections is represented by a nonidentity unipotent matrix of infinite order. Hence is of affine form type but its Coxeter group is infinite.
(ii) The slice and its reflection action. The slice has coordinate and . Its walls are and , its vertices are and , and is a Euclidean -simplex (The affine slice: faithful isometric action, the alcove simplex, and its facet reflections (2)-(4)). The facet reflections are and . For the left dual action, and . Their group is the rank-one affine reflection group ; it acts simply transitively on the open alcoves
(iii) Finite rank-two labels. If instead , where , then so the Coxeter form is positive definite and has no radical. The presented group is finite: every word reduces to or , and the relation leaves at most elements. For these are the finite dihedral families ; for the diagram is disconnected and the group is . Thus among two-vertex Coxeter diagrams, the only affine one is .
(iv) The label is different. The two-vertex label- diagram is the finite diagram; it is not . In the standard affine extension of or , the added affine vertex gives the three-vertex path with labels , namely (The standard affine diagrams A-tilde, B-tilde, C-tilde, D-tilde, E-tilde, F-tilde and G-tilde (7); Crystallographic alcove diagrams: the affine list realized by Weyl types A–G (1)).
(v) Source-hypothesis caveat. Davis's Euclidean simplex criterion, Theorem 6.8.12(ii), assumes that every Coxeter label is finite. The -edge case above is established directly. Numerically, the convention agrees with , but the infinite label imposes no finite relator and gives the degenerate matrix in (i).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The two-element set , the Coxeter matrix with , the coordinate space , its real Coxeter form , and the dual affine slice of Irreducible affine Coxeter type: the corank-one form, the radical quotient, and the affine slice.
The Coxeter form has and ; for a unit basis vector the reflection is (The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps (2)-(3)).
is symmetric and bilinear (Bilinear forms, and symmetric, skew-symmetric, and alternating bilinear forms).
The group is presented by and the relator only when ; an infinite label imposes no relator on the pair (Coxeter matrices, the presented Coxeter group, reduced words, length, and standard parabolic subgroups).
Affine form type means a connected diagram and a positive-semidefinite Coxeter form of corank one (Irreducible affine Coxeter type: the corank-one form, the radical quotient, and the affine slice (1)).
For this affine form, the closed slice is a Euclidean simplex with vertices , for , and each generator acts by reflection in its wall (The affine slice: faithful isometric action, the alcove simplex, and its facet reflections (3)-(4)).
is the two-vertex graph with an -edge, and it is the only standard affine diagram with such an edge. The finite label- diagram is the two-vertex diagram, while is the three-vertex path (The standard affine diagrams A-tilde, B-tilde, C-tilde, D-tilde, E-tilde, F-tilde and G-tilde (1),(7)).
Cosine is strictly decreasing on , and sine is strictly increasing on (Signs, monotonicity intervals, and ranges of sine and cosine).
In the affine highest-root table, both and add a label- edge to their finite label- diagram, giving the path (Crystallographic alcove diagrams: the affine list realized by Weyl types A–G (1)).
The functions form the coordinate basis of : every function is determined by its two values and is their corresponding linear combination of (Basis of a vector space: a linearly independent spanning subset; and ordered basis: an injective finite list whose image is a basis, The vector space of all functions with pointwise operations, and as the case ).
from the defining power series (Sine and cosine defined by their real power series).
Davis identifies the group generated by reflections in a Euclidean interval's endpoints as the infinite dihedral group (Example 6.4.1, printed p. 82).
In type , Xiong describes the affine Weyl group using the coroot lattice (Chapter 2, §§2.2–2.3, PDF p. 11).
Davis's Theorem 6.8.12 assumes that no Coxeter label is (printed p. 102).
Xiong records the low-rank finite Weyl-group coincidence (Chapter 1, Section 1.6, printed p. 4).
Xiong identifies the dihedral group of order with the Coxeter group of type (Chapter 1, Section 1.4, printed p. 3).
Cosine is -Lipschitz: for all real (Sine and cosine are -Lipschitz on ).
is a complete ordered field, so for every there is an integer with (The Cauchy-sequence reals have the least-upper-bound property, The reals form a totally ordered field, For every in a complete ordered field there is a natural with ).
Proof
The matrix in the statement gives . Also and , so the radical is exactly . Thus is positive semidefinite of corank one; the diagram is connected, so the pair is of affine form type by [F4].
In the ordered basis , direct substitution in [F1] gives Both square to the identity. Their product is Since , the presentation in [F3] has no relation beyond the two involutions, so the assignment , defines a representation of . For every integer , (use for ), which is never the identity when . Thus the product is a nonidentity unipotent of infinite order and is infinite.
Here . The slice condition is , so with its points are exactly for . The vertices from [F5] are and ; the alcove inequalities give , and its closure is the Euclidean segment . The two walls are its endpoints and .
For the left dual action, . Since each reflection is involutory, evaluating at gives . Also by [F1], so . Therefore and . Under the left-action convention, , while .
If , then and . By [F7]-[F8] and from [F12], . Therefore where the identity is [F9] and positivity follows from . Moreover the quadratic form is , positive for every nonzero ; thus it has no radical. From [F3], and every word reduces to an alternating word, hence to or ; the finite relator reduces modulo , leaving at most elements. At the generators commute; the presentation maps onto by sending them to the two factors, and the normal-form bound gives at most four elements, so . For , let and define permutations and . They are involutions and , which has exact order . The maps are distinct translations, and the maps are distinct reflections. No reflection is a translation: equality of and at would imply , contrary to . By [F3], these permutations define a homomorphic image of with elements. Together with the upper bound, this proves that is the finite dihedral group of order , with the standard Coxeter notation [F17].
Compositions of and are precisely the maps for : the product is translation by , and composing it with gives every orientation-reversing map of this form. The images of are all integer intervals: translations by give and composing those translations with gives . A positive-orientation map stabilizes only when ; a negative-orientation map sends it to , which cannot equal for integral . Hence the action is simply transitive on these alcoves. This is the rank-one affine reflection group ; its translation subgroup is and its linear part is , hence as in Xiong's rank-one affine Weyl group example.
For , the finite diagram has one label- edge, whereas has one label- edge by [F6]; these labelled graphs are distinct. Xiong's low-rank coincidence [F16] matches the two names and for this finite type. Their rank-two affine extensions have one additional label- edge by [F10], giving the three-vertex path , not .
The matrix entry for is the defining convention in [F1]. For any , [F20] gives , so apply [F19] to choose with . If , then , so . By the Lipschitz bound [F18] and [F12], ; hence , confirming that the matrix convention is the numerical limit. The infinite label still imposes no finite relator by [F3]. By [F15], Davis's cited Euclidean simplex criterion assumes every Coxeter label is finite, so the rank-one -edge case is established directly here. No choice principle is used.
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- Irreducible affine Coxeter type: the corank-one form, the radical quotient, and the affine slice
- The standard affine diagrams A-tilde, B-tilde, C-tilde, D-tilde, E-tilde, F-tilde and G-tilde
- The affine slice: faithful isometric action, the alcove simplex, and its facet reflections
- Crystallographic alcove diagrams: the affine list realized by Weyl types A–G
- The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps
- Coxeter matrices, the presented Coxeter group, reduced words, length, and standard parabolic subgroups
- Basis of a vector space: a linearly independent spanning subset; and ordered basis: an injective finite list whose image is a basis
- The vector space $F^{X}$ of all functions $X \to F$ with pointwise operations, and $F^{n}$ as the case $X = n = \{0, 1, \dots, n-1\}$
- Bilinear forms, and symmetric, skew-symmetric, and alternating bilinear forms
- Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine
- Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi
- Signs, monotonicity intervals, and ranges of sine and cosine
- Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
- Sine and cosine defined by their real power series
- Sine and cosine are $1$-Lipschitz on $\mathbb{R}$
- The Cauchy-sequence reals have the least-upper-bound property
- The reals form a totally ordered field
- For every $\varepsilon > 0$ in a complete ordered field there is a natural $n \ge 1$ with $1/n < \varepsilon$
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Sources
- M. W. Davis, The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups (first-edition author manuscript, Princeton University Press, 2008; 600 PDF pages) (standard reference, not scraped)
- R. Xiong, Lectures on Affine Weyl Groups (complete lecture notes, October 26, 2024; 77 PDF pages) (standard reference, not scraped)