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Chevalley shephard todd for finite weyl groups

Statement

Let W be a finite Weyl group acting faithfully on its r-dimensional complex reflection representation V, and put S=C[V]. Then SW is a polynomial algebra on r homogeneous algebraically independent basic invariants, and S is free of rank W over SW. More generally these conclusions hold for every finite subgroup of GL(V) generated by complex reflections (nonidentity transformations fixing a hyperplane pointwise). In the Weyl case the generating root reflections have order two; no classification or Coxeter presentation is needed here.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A faithful finite reflection group; in the Weyl specialization its action is generated by its root reflections.

[F1]

Minimal homogeneous invariant generators of SS+W exist, generate SW as an algebra and are algebraically independent (Finite reflection invariant generators are algebraically independent).

[F2]

Their number is r, and homogeneous coinvariant basis lifts are a graded free SW-basis of S (Reflection basic invariants form a regular sequence).

[F3]

The coinvariant dimension is the product of basic degrees and equals W (Weyl coinvariant hilbert series has order w dimension).

Proof

1.1

Apply F1 to the given finite subgroup: each generating reflection is precisely a complex reflection under the stated hyperplane definition. If its minimal invariant ideal generators are f1,,fm, the map C[t1,,tm]SW, tifi, is surjective by algebra generation and injective by algebraic independence. Giving ti degree degfi makes this a graded algebra isomorphism.

F1given
2.1

F2 gives m=r and a finite homogeneous basis of S/(f1,,fr)S whose arbitrary homogeneous lifts form a free SW-basis. F3 says this basis has W elements, proving the asserted rank as well as polynomiality. These suppliers concern the same ideal SS+W and the same faithful action; no assertion about a Lie algebra restriction map is involved.

F2F3step 1.1
3.1

When r=0, the subgroup of GL(0) is trivial, the invariant algebra is the polynomial algebra in zero variables C, and its module rank is one. Fixed directions and degree-one generators are allowed by F1 and F2. Only a finite coinvariant basis and finitely many lifts were selected, so the assertion uses no AC. This proves the stated reflection-group direction; no converse characterizing arbitrary invariant-polynomial groups is asserted.

F1F2step 2.1

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