We provide involutory symmetric generating sets of finitely generated Coxeter groups, fulfilling a suitable finiteness condition, which in particular is fulfilled in the finite, affine and compact hyperbolic cases. Mathematics Subject Classification: 20F55, 20F05.

Where to find decomposition matrices? Try www.math.rwth-aachen.de/∼MOC In hard copy, [6] has several (at the end) for small primes. For p = 2, a paper by Juergen Mueller(Aachen) [7], for an electronic version try his homepage. General background can be found in [6]. Column removal: Due to G.D. James, sometime after '76. Just now I cannot find the precise reference. However, a generalization of ...

Let W= W(xx,...,Xj)bc any word in thej free generators xx,...,Xj, and suppose that W cannot be expressed in the form W = Vk for V a word and for k an integer with \k\¥" 1. We ask whether the equation f=W has a solution (xx>... ,Xj) = (a,,... ,Oj) €E GJ whenever G is an infinite symmetric group and/is an element in G. We establish an affirmative answer in the case that W(x, y) = xmy" for m and n...

In this article, we define and study the class of simple transitive 2-representations of finitary 2-categories. We prove a weak version of the classical Jordan-Hölder Theorem where the weak composition subquotients are given by simple transitive 2-representations. For a large class of finitary 2-categories we prove that simple transitive 2-representations are exhausted by cell 2-representations...