The calculus of snakes and the combinatorics of Bernoulli, Euler and Springer numbers of Coxeter groups

DOI10.1070/RM1992v047n01ABEH000861zbMath0791.05001OpenAlexW2058845520MaRDI QIDQ4284909

Vladimir I. Arnold

Publication date: 10 April 1994

Published in: Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1070/rm1992v047n01abeh000861

zbMATH Keywords

permutationsCoxeter groupsBernoulli numberspolyhedral conesEuler numbersSpringer numbersWeyl chamberssnakesMaxwell strataEuclidean reflection groupsenumerative combinatorial problemsmirrors of reflection groupsmorsifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Bernoulli and Euler numbers and polynomials (11B68) Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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