Extended Weyl groups, Hurwitz transitivity and weighted projective lines II: a uniform approach

Abstract

We continue the study of extended Weyl groups $W$, which are reflection groups. Further we recall the definition of a hyperbolic cover of an extended Weyl group, and show that the hyperbolic covers of the extended Weyl groups are extended Coxeter groups, which had been introduced by Looijenga and discussed by people from different mathematical areas. More precisely the hyperbolic covers are the extended Coxeter groups of star type. We define simple reflections and Coxeter transformations in these groups, and show the transitivity of the Hurwitz action on the set of reduced reflection factorizations of a Coxeter transformation in the extended Coxeter groups of star type $\mathcal{W}$, where the reflections are the conjugates of the simple reflections in $\mathcal{W}$. We give two applications of our results. In the context of representation theory of algebras, we establish an isomorphism between the poset of thick subcategories that are generated by exceptional sequences of a hereditary connected ext-finite abelian $k$-category with a tilting object, $k$ algebraically closed of characteristic $0$, and the poset of elements in the extended Weyl group that are below a Coxeter transformation with respect to the absolute order. The second application concerns the theory of unimodal singularities. In particular, we provide an answer to a question of Brieskorn for the classical monodromy operator in the case of hyperbolic singularities.