Hurwitz numbers for reflection groups I: generatingfunctionology

DOI10.54550/ECA2022V2S3R20MaRDI QIDQ6098025zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Theo Douvropoulos, Joel Brewster Lewis, Alejandro H. Morales

Publication date 9 June 2023

Published in Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03427

zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz numberscomplex reflection groupstransitive factorizationsfull factorizationsreflection factorizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) General theory for finite permutation groups (20B05) Ordinary representations and characters (20C15) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Abstract: The classical Hurwitz numbers count the fixed-length transitive transposition factorizations of a permutation, with a remarkable product formula for the case of minimum length (genus $0$). We study the analogue of these numbers for reflection groups with the following generalization of transitivity: say that a reflection factorization of an element in a reflection group $W$ is full if the factors generate the whole group $W$. We compute the generating function for full factorizations of arbitrary length for an arbitrary element in a group in the combinatorial family $G(m,p,n)$ of complex reflection groups in terms of the generating functions of the symmetric group $mathfrak{S}_n$ and the cyclic group of order $m/p$. As a corollary, we obtain leading-term formulas which count minimum-length full reflection factorizations of an arbitrary element in $G(m,p,n)$ in terms of the Hurwitz numbers of genus $0$ and $1$ and number-theoretic functions. We also study the structural properties of such generating functions for any complex reflection group; in particular, we show via representation-theoretic methods that they can by expressed as finite sums of exponentials of the variable.

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