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Cyclic sieving for longest reduced words in the hyperoctahedral group

Combinatorics 2009-05-19 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We show that the set R(w_0) of reduced expressions for the longest element in the hyperoctahedral group exhibits the cyclic sieving phenomenon. More specifically, R(w_0) possesses a natural cyclic action given by moving the first letter of a word to the end, and we show that the orbit structure of this action is encoded by the generating function for the major index on R(w_0).

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@article{arxiv.0905.2650,
  title  = {Cyclic sieving for longest reduced words in the hyperoctahedral group},
  author = {T. Kyle Petersen and Luis Serrano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2650},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages

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