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Affine symmetric group

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Nominator(s): JBL (talk) 17:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

This article is about a mathematical object that is of interest to pure mathematicians in a wide array of areas. I believe this article presents a comprehensive account of its subject, including its multiple definitions (and why they are equivalent), its many interesting properties and substructures, and its substantial connections to other mathematical objects (especially the "usual" finite symmetric group of permutations, which appears in nearly every corner of mathematics). While the affine symmetric group is not usually encountered outside the context of research mathematics (say, by PhD students or professional researchers), I believe the article is written so that significant portions of it can be appreciated by readers with a more modest mathematical background, and nearly all of it appreciated by an undergraduate who has taken a first course in group theory. This is my first FA nomination, but I received extremely helpful guidance from Iry-Hor before submission. JBL (talk) 17:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

First-time nomination

• Hi JayBeeEll, and welcome to FAC. Just noting that as a first time nominator at FAC, this article will need to pass a source to text integrity spot check and a review for over-close paraphrasing to be considered for promotion. Good luck with the nomination. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:00, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
• Just commenting here to say that I was the one who approved the article for GA status and didn't notice any source-to-text integrity issues at the time. Further spot-checking should still be done; I'm pretty confident that the material is all in the books that it's claimed to be in, but page-number errors can catch the best of us. One quick note about the prose: in § Algebraic definition, perhaps it would flow more nicely to say what the vertices and edges of a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram mean before saying what the diagrams of the affine symmetric groups are. XOR'easter (talk) 21:39, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  Yeah you're absolutely right, the flow is funny there. That is a good suggestion, I will adjust. --JBL (talk) 23:13, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

  I did a thing, hopefully it's smoother now. --JBL (talk) 17:44, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks XOR'easter. If you have done the donkey work, do feel free to finish it off here. And/or do a standard source review. :-) Gog the Mild (talk) 19:01, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Coordinator note

This has been open for three weeks and has yet to pick up a support. Unless it attracts considerable movement towards a consensus to promote over the next three or four days I am afraid that it is liable to be archived. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:16, 21 July 2023 (UTC)