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Narrow normal subgroups of Coxeter groups and of automorphism groups of Coxeter groups

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Abstract

By definition, a group is called narrow if it does not contain a copy of a non-abelian free group. We describe the structure of finite and narrow normal subgroups in Coxeter groups and their automorphism groups.

Award Identifier / Grant number: ANR-19-CE40-0001-01

Award Identifier / Grant number: VA 1397/2-2

Funding statement: The first author is supported by the French project “AlMaRe” (ANR-19-CE40-0001-01) of the ANR. The second author is supported by DFG grant VA 1397/2-2.

Acknowledgements

We want to thank Philip Möller for useful comments on the previous version of this paper and the referee for many helpful remarks.

  1. Communicated by: Adrian Ioana

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Received: 2022-12-01
Revised: 2023-08-10
Published Online: 2023-10-19
Published in Print: 2024-03-01

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