Coxeter embeddings are injective

Abstract

We show that certain embeddings of Coxeter groups within other Coxeter groups are injective using the notion of Coxeter partitions. Moreover, we study Lusztig's partitions, which are generalizations of Lusztig's admissible maps and Crisp's foldings. We show that they classify the simplest type of Coxeter partitions, whose embeddings of Coxeter groups send each generator to a product of commuting generators. Consequently, these embeddings are also injective, and we prove that they preserve Coxeter numbers. These results were previously known, due to work of M\"{u}hlherr and Dyer.