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We call an element of a Coxeter group fully covering (or a fully covering element) if its length is equal to the number of the elements it covers in the Bruhat ordering. It is easy to see that the notion of fully covering is a generalization of the notion of a 321-avoiding permutation and that a fully covering element is a fully commutative element. Also, we call a Coxeter group bi-full if its fully commutative elements coincide with its fully covering elements. We show that the bi-full Coxeter groups are the ones of type A n , D n , E n with no restriction on n. In other words, Coxeter groups of type E9, E10,.... are also bi-full. According to a result of Fan, a Coxeter group is a simply-laced FC-finite Coxeter group if and only if it is a bi-full Coxeter group.
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AMS Subject Classification: 06A07, 20F55.
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Hagiwara, M., Ishikawa, M. & Tagawa, H. A Characterization of the Simply-Laced FC-Finite Coxeter Groups. Ann. Combin. 8, 177–196 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-004-0214-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-004-0214-6