Unitary Groups Generated by Reflections
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Mathematical Society in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
- Vol. 5, 364-383
- https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1953-042-7
Abstract
A reflection in Euclidean n-dimensional space is a particular type of congruent transformation which is of period two and leaves a prime (i.e., hyperplane) invariant. Groups generated by a number of these reflections have been extensively studied [5, pp. 187-212]. They are of interest since, with very few exceptions, the symmetry groups of uniform polytopes are of this type. Coxeter has also shown [4] that it is possible, by Wythoff's construction, to derive a number of uniform polytopes from any group generated by reflections. His discussion of this construction is elegantly illustrated by the use of a graphical notation [4, p. 328; 5, p. 84] whereby the properties of the polytopes can be read off from a simple graph of nodes, branches, and rings.Keywords
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