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Signed Hultman Numbers and Signed Generalized Commuting Probability in Finite Groups

Group Theory 2020-10-20 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let G be a finite group. Let pi be a permutation from S{n}. We study the distribution of probabilities of equality a{1} a{2} ...a{n-1}a{n}=a{pi{1}}^{epsilon{1}} a{pi_{2}}^{epsilon{2}}...a{pi{n-1}}^{epsilon_{n-1}} a_{pi_{n}}^{epsilon{n}}, when pi varies over all the permutations in S{n}, and epsilon{i} varies over the set {+1, -1}. By the paper "Hultman Numbers and Generalized Commuting Probability in Finite Groups" (2017), The case where all epsilon{i} are +1 led to a close connection to Hultman numbers. In this paper we generalize the results, permitting epsilon{i} to be -1. We describe the spectrum of the probabilities of signed permutation equalities in a finite group G. This spectrum turns out to be closely related to the partition of 2^{n}*n! into a sum of the corresponding signed Hultman numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1906.05522,
  title  = {Signed Hultman Numbers and Signed Generalized Commuting Probability in Finite Groups},
  author = {Robert Shwartz and Vadim E. Levit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05522},
  year   = {2020}
}
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