On expected factors in reduced decompositions in type B

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2006.01.013zbMATH Open1147.05060arXivmath/0508153OpenAlexW2039359807MaRDI QIDQ875050FDOQ875050

Bridget Eileen Tenner

Publication date: 10 April 2007

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

Abstract: The expected number of Yang-Baxter moves appearing in a reduced decomposition of the longest element of the Coxeter group of type B_n is computed to be 2-4/n. For the same element, the expected number of 0101 or 1010 factors appearing in a reduced decomposition is 2/(n^2-2).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508153

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupselements of maximal lengthnumbers of reduced decompositionsCoxeter generators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Permutations, words, matrices (05A05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

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