A divisibility result on combinatorics of generalized braids
Combinatorics
2015-04-24 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
For every finite Coxeter group , each positive braids in the corresponding braid group admits a unique decomposition as a finite sequence of elements of , the so-called Garside-normal form.The study of the associated adjacency matrix allows to count the number of Garside-normal form of a given length.In this paper we prove that the characteristic polynomial of divides the one of . The key point is the use of a Hopf algebra based on signed permutations. A similar result was already known for the type . We observe that this does not hold for type . The other Coxeter types (, , and ) are also studied.
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@article{arxiv.1504.06087,
title = {A divisibility result on combinatorics of generalized braids},
author = {Loïc Foissy and Jean Fromentin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06087},
year = {2015}
}
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28 pages