Asymptotics of a locally dependent statistic on finite reflection groups (Q2185214)

Summary: This paper discusses the asymptotic behaviour of the number of descents in a random signed permutation and its inverse, which was listed as an interesting direction by \textit{S. Chatterjee} and \textit{P. Diaconis} [Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 48, No. 4, 561--573 (2017; Zbl 1390.60082)]. For that purpose, we generalize their result for the asymptotic normality of the number of descents in a random permutation and its inverse to other finite reflection groups. This is achieved by applying their proof scheme to signed permutations, i.e. elements of Coxeter groups of type \(\mathtt{B}_n \), which are also known as the hyperoctahedral groups. Furthermore, a similar central limit theorem for elements of Coxeter groups of type \(\mathtt{D}_n\) is derived via Slutsky's Theorem and a bound on the Wasserstein distance of certain normalized statistics with local dependency structures and bounded local components is proven for both types of Coxeter groups. In addition, we show a two-dimensional central limit theorem via the Cramér-Wold device.