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A central limit theorem for the two-sided descent statistic on Coxeter groups

Combinatorics 2022-02-04 v2 Group Theory Probability

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the statistic (des+ides) which assigns to an element w of a finite Coxeter group W the number of descents of w plus the number of descents of its inverse. Our main result is a central limit theorem for the probability distributions associated to this statistic. This answers a question of Kahle-Stump and generalises work of Chatterjee-Diaconis, \"Ozdemir and R\"ottger.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07955,
  title  = {A central limit theorem for the two-sided descent statistic on Coxeter groups},
  author = {Benjamin Brück and Frank Röttger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07955},
  year   = {2022}
}

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21 pages incl. appendix

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