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2 unusual facts about Weyl group


Burkhardt quartic

The automorphism group of the Burkhardt quartic is the Burkhardt group U4(2) = PSp4(3), a simple group of order 25920, which is isomorphic to a subgroup of index 2 in the Weyl group of E6.

Weyl group

Anders Björner and Francesco Brenti, Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol.


Wilhelm Killing

As A. J. Coleman says, "He exhibited the characteristic equation of the Weyl group when Weyl was 3 years old and listed the orders of the Coxeter transformation 19 years before Coxeter was born."


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