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Lorentzian coxeter groups and Boyd-Maxwell ball packings

  • Free University of Berlin

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Abstract

In the recent study of infinite root systems, fractal patterns of ball packings were observed while visualizing roots in affine space. In fact, the observed fractals are exactly the ball packings described by Boyd and Maxwell. This correspondence is a corollary of a more fundamental result: given a geometric representation of a Coxeter group in Lorentz space, the set of limit directions of weights equals the set of limit roots.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-111
Number of pages9
JournalDiscrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event26th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, FPSAC 2014 - Chicago, United States
Duration: 29 Jun 20143 Jul 2014

!!!Keywords

  • Ball packing
  • Coxeter graphs
  • Infinite Coxeter groups
  • Infinite root systems
  • Limit roots
  • Sphere packing

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