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Separable elements and splittings in Weyl groups of Type $B$

Combinatorics 2025-03-20 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

Separable elements in Weyl groups are generalizations of the well-known class of separable permutations in symmetric groups. Gaetz and Gao showed that for any pair (X,Y)(X,Y) of subsets of the symmetric group Sn\mathfrak{S}_n, the multiplication map X×YSnX\times Y\rightarrow \mathfrak{S}_n is a splitting (i.e., a length-additive bijection) of Sn\mathfrak{S}_n if and only if XX is the generalized quotient of YY and YY is a principal lower order ideal in the right weak order generated by a separable element. They conjectured this result can be extended to all finite Weyl groups. In this paper, we classify all separable and minimal non-separable signed permutations in terms of forbidden patterns and confirm the conjecture of Gaetz and Gao for Weyl groups of type BB.

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@article{arxiv.2309.02932,
  title  = {Separable elements and splittings in Weyl groups of Type $B$},
  author = {Ming Liu and Houyi Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.02932},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

21 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome

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