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Depth in Coxeter groups of type $B$

Eli Bagno (1), Riccardo Biagioli (2), Mordechai Novick (1)
(1) Jerusalem College of Technology
(2) Combinatoire, théorie des nombres
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DMTCS Proceedings, 27th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2015)
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10.46298/dmtcs.2457
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Depth in Coxeter groups of type $B$

Eli Bagno (1), Riccardo Biagioli (2), Mordechai Novick (1)
(1) Jerusalem College of Technology
(2) Combinatoire, théorie des nombres
Abstract
English
The depth statistic was defined for every Coxeter group in terms of factorizations of its elements into product of reflections. Essentially, the depth gives the minimal path cost in the Bruaht graph, where the edges have prescribed weights. We present an algorithm for calculating the depth of a signed permutation which yields a simple formula for this statistic. We use our algorithm to characterize signed permutations having depth equal to length. These are the fully commutative top-and-bottom elements defined by Stembridge. We finally give a characterization of the signed permutations in which the reflection length coincides with both the depth and the length.
French
La statistique profondeur a été introduite par Petersen et Tenner pour tout groupe de Coxeter $W$. Elle est définie pour tout $w \in W$ à partir de ses factorisations en produit de réflexions (non nécessairement simples). Pour le type $B$, nous introduisons un algorithme calculant la profondeur, et donnant une formule explicite pour cette statistique. On utilise par ailleurs cet algorithme pour caractériser tous les éléments ayant une profondeur égale à leur longueur. Ces derniers s’avèrent être les éléments pleinement commutatifs “hauts-et-bas” introduits par Stembridge. Nous donnons enfin une caractérisation des éléments dont la longueur absolue, la profondeur et la longueur coïncident.
Keywords
  • [INFO.INFO-DM]Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
  • length
  • depths
  • reflections
  • Coxeter groups
  • Bruhat graph
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