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Exceptional parabolic-orbit length certificates for E6, E7, E8, F4, H3 and H4
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice), used only to install the basic degrees through Basic degrees, exponents, and the graded coinvariant algebra of a finite Coxeter system and A regular Coxeter eigenvector determines the basic degrees: the exponent-residue identification and the complete degree tables for all finite Coxeter types.
Let be the irreducible finite Coxeter system of one of the types with its canonical reflection representation and positive definite Coxeter form (The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps, The canonical reflection homomorphism, roots, reflections, and the positive cone, Classification of finite Coxeter systems, including the H and dihedral families, Coxeter diagrams: edges, labels, components and finite type). In each type let be the deleted node and the parabolic complement recorded in the exact certificate file research/coxeter-scaffold/math-checks/finite-degree-poincare-certificates.json. Its diagrams have edges ; ; all labelled ; with labelled ; with labelled ; and with labelled . The deleted nodes are , respectively. By the intrinsic parabolic presentation in Support, intrinsic parabolic presentations, minimal coset representatives and length additivity, with the type-A identification (2) and the classification, the resulting Coxeter systems have types
(1) The certificate. For each type, the certificate records the exact coefficient field , with , or with and (the edge scalars are derived in [F7]); the labelled diagram, deleted node, orbit of the dual fundamental functional of that node, one exact coordinate for every orbit point, the image index for every generator at every orbit point, an applied word reaching every orbit point and its distance, the Coxeter-applied sequence, the exact matrix of the induced dual action in dual-simple-root coordinates, and its characteristic polynomial. The dual simple-reflection matrices are determined exactly by the recorded diagram and the coordinate action in [F2], but are not stored as separate fields. The recorded orbit sizes and quotient polynomials are
(2) The lengths are the distances. For each type the recorded function satisfies at every generator and orbit point, the recorded words attain every recorded value, and the orbit is closed under all generators. Consequently equals the minimal-coset-length distance of The orbit of a dual fundamental functional: stabilizer, minimal coset length, Schreier distance, and the quotient formula (2)-(3), and
(3) Degree comparison and the Poincare product for the six types. The basic degrees of A regular Coxeter eigenvector determines the basic degrees: the exponent-residue identification and the complete degree tables for all finite Coxeter types (2) are for , for , for , for , for , and for . For the six parabolics, respectively, the degree multisets are , , , , , and , from the same degree suppliers. The certificate verifies coefficientwise that Therefore, by (2) and induction on rank along , , and , whose initial parabolics are covered by Classical Poincare products for A, B, D and I2(m) from the permutation and signed-permutation models (3), one has for each of the six exceptional types. The six quotient expressions in (1) agree coefficientwise with the corresponding identities and the certificate's exact distance histograms.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The certificate file research/coxeter-scaffold/math-checks/finite-degree-poincare-certificates.json (version 1, exact arithmetic over the stated fields and no floating point), its six case records with the diagrams, deleted nodes, fields, orbit data, degree multisets and check flags, and for each type the Coxeter system , its canonical reflection representation on with Coxeter form , and the dual fundamental functional .
and for ; the reflection is , is a -preserving linear involution, and for (The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps (2)-(3), Reflections: involutivity, form invariance, fixed hyperplane, and exact rank-two order (2)).
In dual simple-root coordinates , the dual simple reflection acts by and for ; this is the dual action of The orbit of a dual fundamental functional: stabilizer, minimal coset length, Schreier distance, and the quotient formula, under which is the orbit of the certificate's seed coordinate.
Each table orbit size is the finite cardinality of the listed certificate states (The cardinality of a finite set). For the orbit of a dual fundamental functional, is the minimal length in the corresponding left coset (Left and right cosets and of a subgroup), equals graph distance in the Schreier graph, satisfies , and (The orbit of a dual fundamental functional: stabilizer, minimal coset length, Schreier distance, and the quotient formula (2)-(4)).
The degree tables and displayed in the Statement are the basic degrees of Basic degrees, exponents, and the graded coinvariant algebra of a finite Coxeter system and A regular Coxeter eigenvector determines the basic degrees: the exponent-residue identification and the complete degree tables for all finite Coxeter types (1)-(3). Their Axiom-of-Choice premise is assumed here (The Axiom of Choice).
The classical products , , and are proved in Classical Poincare products for A, B, D and I2(m) from the permutation and signed-permutation models (3).
The six diagrams are the standard diagrams of the classification, so is finite and the Coxeter form is positive definite (hence its Gram matrix is invertible); deleting the stated node leaves the displayed standard parabolic diagram, and Support, intrinsic parabolic presentations, minimal coset representatives and length additivity, with the type-A identification (2) identifies the subgroup generated by that node set with the Coxeter system on the restricted matrix. In particular is finite as a subgroup of (Classification of finite Coxeter systems, including the H and dihedral families (1), Coxeter diagrams: edges, labels, components and finite type (1)-(2)).
Exact arithmetic in the three coefficient fields. For , put ; positivity follows from , strict decrease of cosine on , and (Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine, Signs, monotonicity intervals, and ranges of sine and cosine, Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi). The power-series definition gives , and the cosine addition formulas and parity give for , , and , so and (Sine and cosine defined by their real power series, The addition formulas for sine and cosine, Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine). At , gives , hence . At , the double-angle identity and give , so by positivity and uniqueness of the nonnegative square root (Double-angle and quadratic power-reduction identities, Square roots exist: a unique with ; the positives are ). At , gives , hence ; setting gives the stated real quadratic field relation. Thus the edge scalars are for label , for label , and for label .
The characteristic polynomial of the recorded bipartite Coxeter matrix is computed from exact matrix entries by the adjugate/Newton trace argument and agrees with the polynomial recorded in the certificate (The six exceptional Coxeter spectra: characteristic polynomials, orders and spectral exponents from exact matrices (Statement), Proof (2.1), (3.1), (4.1), (6.1)).
Proof
Data and dual matrices. For each of the six rows, [F6] identifies the recorded diagram with the standard diagram of the type and the recorded parabolic with the stated type, and the deleted nodes of the statement are exactly the certificate's deleted-node entries. By [F7] every edge scalar is exact in the recorded coefficient field; [F2] then gives the exact dual simple-reflection matrices in dual simple-root coordinates, while nonedges have scalar . The script applies these matrices to the seed coordinate vector, performs exact breadth-first search, and records each state, each generator image, an attaining word and its graph distance. The certificate matrix is for the dual action. If is a canonical simple-reflection matrix and is the Gram matrix, then and by [F1], so its dual matrix . Multiplying in the same recorded order shows that the dual-action Coxeter matrix is similar to the canonical Coxeter matrix; thus their characteristic polynomials agree. The canonical characteristic polynomial is the exact trace result of [F8], and the certificate also checks its cyclotomic factorization. The seven certificate flags (orbit closure, word upper bounds, edge-distance lower bounds, reflection involutions, the Poincare product identity, the cyclotomic spectrum identity, and the final characteristic recurrence) are true; rerunning the script reproduces the certificate byte for byte. Thus these are exact coordinate computations, with no floating-point approximation.
The recorded lengths are the distances. Fix one of the six types. The recorded state set contains the seed and is closed under every generator, and every recorded state is reached from the seed by its recorded generator sequence; hence it is exactly the orbit . Let be the recorded distance. Each recorded word has length , so the graph distance is at most . Conversely, the certificate verifies that changes by at most one along every generator edge and vanishes at the seed; summing this bound along any edge path gives . Therefore , which by [F3] is the minimal left-coset length. The recorded orbit sizes and distance polynomials are thus correct, and [F3] gives .
Degree comparison and induction. The exact coefficient check of the Poincare product identity agrees with the degree multisets of [F4]. The six identities reduce to , , , , , and , where ; multiplying by the corresponding parabolic degree products gives exactly the six ambient degree products in the statement. Using the quotient factorization established in step 2.1, each identity converts a known into . For , [F5] gives , and the first relation gives . For , [F5] gives , and the second relation gives ; the fourth and fifth relations then give . For , [F5] gives , and the first relation gives ; the second and third relations give ; the fourth, fifth and sixth relations give . Each result is . Choice enters only through the degree determinations of [F4]; the certificate's orbit and distance verification is choice-free.
Depends on
- The canonical reflection homomorphism, roots, reflections, and the positive cone
- The real Coxeter form, its radical, reflections, and form-preserving maps
- Sine and cosine defined by their real power series
- The Axiom of Choice
- Basic degrees, exponents, and the graded coinvariant algebra of a finite Coxeter system
- Coxeter diagrams: edges, labels, components and finite type
- The cardinality $\lvert A\rvert$ of a finite set
- Pi as twice the smallest positive zero of cosine
- Classical Poincare products for A, B, D and I2(m) from the permutation and signed-permutation models
- The six exceptional Coxeter spectra: characteristic polynomials, orders and spectral exponents from exact matrices
- The orbit of a dual fundamental functional: stabilizer, minimal coset length, Schreier distance, and the quotient formula
- Reflections: involutivity, form invariance, fixed hyperplane, and exact rank-two order
- Classification of finite Coxeter systems, including the H and dihedral families
- A regular Coxeter eigenvector determines the basic degrees: the exponent-residue identification and the complete degree tables for all finite Coxeter types
- Double-angle and quadratic power-reduction identities
- Support, intrinsic parabolic presentations, minimal coset representatives and length additivity, with the type-A identification
- Square roots exist: a unique $\sqrt{a} \ge 0$ with $(\sqrt{a})^2 = a$; the positives are $\{x^2 : x \neq 0\}$
- Quarter-turn values and shifts by pi/2 and pi
- The addition formulas for sine and cosine
- Signs, monotonicity intervals, and ranges of sine and cosine
- Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
- Left and right cosets $gH$ and $Hg$ of a subgroup
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Sources
- A. Björner and F. Brenti, Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups, GTM 231 (class-hosted complete PDF) (standard reference, not scraped)