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Length enumeration of fully commutative elements in finite and affine Coxeter groups

Combinatorics 2025-04-11 v1

Abstract

An element w of a Coxeter group W is said to be fully commutative, if any reduced expression of w can be obtained from any other by transposing adjacent pairs of generators. These elements were described in 1996 by Stembridge in the case of finite irreducible groups, and more recently by Biagioli, Jouhet and Nadeau (BJN) in the affine cases. We focus here on the length enumeration of these elements. Using a recursive description, BJN established for the associated generating functions systems of non-linear q-equations. Here, we show that an alternative recursive description leads to explicit expressions for these generating functions.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07591,
  title  = {Length enumeration of fully commutative elements in finite and affine Coxeter groups},
  author = {Riccardo Biagioli and Mireille Bousquet-Mélou and Frédéric Jouhet and Philippe Nadeau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07591},
  year   = {2025}
}

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37 pages, 7 figures