Marcelo Aguiar ; Kile T. Petersen
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The module of affine descents
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2013,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AS, 25th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2013)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.12811
The module of affine descentsArticle
Authors: Marcelo Aguiar 1; Kile T. Petersen 2
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Marcelo Aguiar;Kile T. Petersen
1 Department of Mathematics [Austin]
2 Department of Mathematical Sciences [Chicago]
The goal of this paper is to introduce an algebraic structure on the space spanned by affine descent classes of a Weyl group, by analogy and in relation to the structure carried by ordinary descent classes. The latter classes span a subalgebra of the group algebra, Solomon's descent algebra. We show that the former span a left module over this algebra. The structure is obtained from geometric considerations involving hyperplane arrangements. We provide a combinatorial model for the case of the symmetric group.