Extended Weak Order for the Rank 3 Universal Coxeter Group

Abstract

The weak order is a classical poset structure on a Coxeter group; it is a lattice when the group is finite but merely a meet-semilattice when the group is infinite. Motivated by problems in Kazhdan--Lusztig theory, Matthew Dyer introduced the extended weak order, a poset that contains a copy of the weak order as an order ideal, and he conjectured that the extended weak order for any Coxeter group is a lattice. We prove Dyer's conjecture for the rank 3 universal Coxeter group. This is the first non-spherical, non-affine Coxeter group for which Dyer's conjecture has been proven.