Reflection decompositions in the classical Weyl groups

DOI10.1016/0012-365X(93)E0163-XMaRDI QIDQ1343784zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alain Goupil

Publication date 17 September 1995

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-365x(93)e0163-x

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesCoxeter groupsdecomposition of elementsminimal number of transpositionsnumber of minimal decompositionspartitionsproducts of reflectionssymmetric groupsWeyl groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Symmetric groups (20B30) Arithmetic and combinatorial problems involving abstract finite groups (20D60) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55)

Review text

Let \(W\) be a Coxeter group. Every \(x \in W\) is a product of reflections \(\rho_ i \in W\), i.e. \(x = \rho_ 1 \dots \rho_ k\). If \(k\) is minimal, put \(k = r(x,W)\). Clearly, \(r(x,W)\) is constant on a conjugacy class \(C_ i\) of \(W\). Put \(r(C_ i) = r(x,W)\) for \(x \in C_ i\). Let \(p(C_ i)\) denote the number of minimal decompositions in the conjugacy class \(C_ i\). The author determines \(p(C_ i)\) for Weyl groups of type \(B_ n\) and \(D_ n\) and relates the results to the decomposition of elements in the symmetric groups into more than the minimal number of transpositions.

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