The depth of a permutation.

DOI10.4310/JOC.2015.V6.N1.A9zbMATH Open1317.20040arXiv1202.4765OpenAlexW2963127579MaRDI QIDQ2345773FDOQ2345773

Authors: T. Kyle Petersen, Bridget Eileen Tenner 

Publication date: 20 May 2015

Published in: Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the elements of a Coxeter group, we present a statistic called depth, defined in terms of factorizations of the elements into products of reflections. Depth is bounded above by length and below by the average of length and reflection length. In this article, we focus on the case of the symmetric group, where we show that depth is equal to sum_i max{w(i)-i, 0}. We characterize those permutations for which depth equals length: these are the 321-avoiding permutations (and hence are enumerated by the Catalan numbers). We also characterize those permutations for which depth equals reflection length: these are permutations avoiding both 321 and 3412 (also known as boolean permutations, which we can hence also enumerate). In this case, it also happens that length equals reflection length, leading to a new perspective on a result of Edelman.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4765

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetric groupsCoxeter groupsfactorizationsproducts of reflectionsreflection lengthsdepth of permutations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Symmetric groups (20B30) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

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