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An inversion metric for reduced words

Combinatorics 2020-03-05 v1

Abstract

We study the graph on reduced words with edges given by the Coxeter relations for the symmetric group. We define a metric on reduced words for a given permutation, analogous to Coxeter length for permutations, for which the graph becomes ranked with unique maximal element. We show this metric extends naturally to balanced tableaux, and use it to recover enumerative results of Edelman and Greene and of Reiner and Roichman.

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@article{arxiv.1808.01281,
  title  = {An inversion metric for reduced words},
  author = {Sami Assaf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01281},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 16 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.00088

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