Affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups induced by projection

Dechant, Pierre-Philippe; Boehm, Celine; Twarock, Reidun

Abstract

In this paper, we show that affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups can be derived via Coxeter-Dynkin diagram foldings and projections of affine extended versions of the root systems E 8, D 6, and A 4. We show that the induced affine extensions of the non-crystallographic groups H 4, H 3, and H 2 correspond to a distinguished subset of those considered in [P.-P. Dechant, C. Bœhm, and R. Twarock, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.45, 285202 (2012)]. This class of extensions was motivated by physical applications in icosahedral systems in biology (viruses), physics (quasicrystals), and chemistry (fullerenes). By connecting these here to extensions of E 8, D 6, and A 4, we place them into the broader context of crystallographic lattices such as E 8, suggesting their potential for applications in high energy physics, integrable systems, and modular form theory. By inverting the projection, we make the case for admitting different number fields in the Cartan matrix, which could open up enticing possibilities in hyperbolic geometry and rational conformal field theory.

Citation

Dechant, P., Boehm, C., & Twarock, R. (2013). Affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups induced by projection. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 54(9), Article 093508. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4820441

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Jan 20, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2014
• Journal: Journal of Mathematical Physics
• Print ISSN: 0022-2488
• Electronic ISSN: 1089-7658
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 9
• Article Number: 093508
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4820441
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1464738