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Long fully commutative elements in affine Coxeter groups

Combinatorics 2014-07-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

An element of a Coxeter group WW is called fully commutative if any two of its reduced decompositions can be related by a series of transpositions of adjacent commuting generators. In the preprint "Fully commutative elements in finite and affine Coxeter groups" (arXiv:1402.2166), R. Biagioli and the authors proved among other things that, for each irreducible affine Coxeter group, the sequence counting fully commutative elements with respect to length is ultimately periodic. In the present work, we study this sequence in its periodic part for each of these groups, and in particular we determine the minimal period. We also observe that in type AA affine we get an instance of the cyclic sieving phenomenon.

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@article{arxiv.1407.5575,
  title  = {Long fully commutative elements in affine Coxeter groups},
  author = {Frédéric Jouhet and Philippe Nadeau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.5575},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures

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