Rigid reflections of rank 3 Coxeter groups and reduced roots of rank 2 Kac--Moody algebras

TL;DR

This paper proves a conjecture linking reduced positive roots of rank 2 Kac--Moody algebras to rigid reflections in rank 3 Coxeter groups, establishing a deep connection between algebraic structures and geometric representations.

Contribution

It confirms the conjectured bijection between reduced roots of rank 2 Kac--Moody algebras and rigid reflections of rank 3 Coxeter groups.

Findings

Proved the conjecture relating roots and reflections.

Established a bijection between algebraic roots and geometric reflections.

Enhanced understanding of the structure of Coxeter groups and Kac--Moody algebras.

Abstract

In a recent paper by K.-H. Lee and K. Lee, rigid reflections are defined for any Coxeter group via non-self-intersecting curves on a Riemann surface with labeled curves. When the Coxeter group arises from an acyclic quiver, the rigid reflections are related to the rigid representations of the quiver. For a family of rank $3$ Coxeter groups, it was conjectured in the same paper that there is a natural bijection from the set of reduced positive roots of a symmetric rank $2$ Kac--Moody algebra onto the set of rigid reflections of the corresponding rank $3$ Coxeter group. In this paper, we prove the conjecture.