Affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups induced by projection

作者：Dechant Pierre Philippe^*; Boehm Celine; Twarock Reidun

来源：Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2013, 54(9): 093508.

DOI：10.1063/1.4820441

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. Boehm, 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.

• 出版日期2013-9