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Transpositional sequences and multigraphs

Combinatorics 2019-04-23 v1

Abstract

When t:=t1,t2,,tk{\bf t} := \langle t_1,t_2,\ldots,t_k\rangle is a sequence of transpositions on the finite set n:={0,1,,n1}n:=\{0,1,\ldots,n-1\}, then t:=t1t2tk\bigcirc{\bf t}:= t_1\circ t_2\circ\cdots\circ t_k denotes the compositional product of the sequence. Our paper treats the set Prod(t){\rm Prod}({\bf t}) of all s\bigcirc{\bf s}, where s{\bf s} is a sequence obtained by rearranging the terms of t{\bf t}. The paper characterizes the set of all transpositional sequences t{\bf t} for which Prod(t){\rm Prod}({\bf t}) is the subset of a single congugacy class in the symmetric group Sym(n){\rm Sym}(n); we call such t{\bf t} {\it conjugacy invariant}. At the opposite extreme, the paper studies conditions under which t{\bf t} is {\it permutationally complete}, which is to say, those t{\bf t} for which either Prod(t)=Alt(n){\rm Prod}({\bf t}) = {\rm Alt}(n) or Prod(t)=Sym(n)Alt(n){\rm Prod}({\bf t}) = {\rm Sym}(n)\setminus{\rm Alt}(n).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1904.09694,
  title  = {Transpositional sequences and multigraphs},
  author = {Alissa Ellis Yazinski and Raymond R. Fletcher and Donald Silberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09694},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 20B30, 20B99

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