Coxeter Elements
Coxeter elements of, considered as the symmetric group on n elements, are n-cycles: for simple reflections the adjacent transpositions, a Coxeter element is the n-cycle .
The dihedral group Dihm is generated by two reflections that form an angle of, and thus their product is a rotation by .
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