A new approach to reflections

What is it about?

Coxeter groups are a mathematical framework for describing reflections. Clifford algebra has a uniquely simple way of performing reflections. Clifford algebra does not seem to have been applied to the Coxeter group and root system framework. The combination of both paradigms resulted in a number of surprising results. (This paper won the conference prize at AGACSE 2012.)

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Why is it important?

These include an understanding of 4D geometry through rotations (spinors) in 3D. Since there is an intimate connection between the conformal group (including translations) in n dimensions and the orthogonal group in n+2 dimensions, lattices can be generated multiplicatively in this framework; we showed that a conformal framework is appealing for root systems and also quasilattices. We furthermore provide a geometric interpretation of complex eigenvalues of the Coxeter element.