A124578 Define p(alpha,2) to be the number of H-conjugacy classes where H is an infant subgroup ( similar to Young subgroups of S_n) of type alpha of the hyperoctahedral group B_n. Then a(n) = sum p(alpha,2) where |alpha| = n and alpha has at most n parts.

2, 16, 150, 1784, 25460

Offset

1,1

Comments

p((n,0),2) = A000712. B_n can also be thought of as the signed permutation group. B_3 acts on the alphabet {1,2,3,bar{1}, bar{2}, bar{3}}. An infant subgroup of type (2,1) will be the subgroup which stabilizes the sets {1,bar{1}, 2, bar{2}} and {3,bar{3}}.

References

Richard Bayley, Relative Character Theory and the Hyperoctahedral Group, Ph.D. thesis, Queen Mary College, University of London, to be published 2007.

Steve Donkin, Invariant functions on Matrices, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 113 (1993) 23-43.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..5.

Richard Bayley, Homepage.

Formula

Let x = x_1x_2x_3... and x^alpha = x_1^(alpha_1)x_2^(alpha_2)x_3^(alpha_3).... Let Phi = set of all primitive necklaces. If b is a primitive necklace then C(b) = Content(b) = (beta_1, beta_2,beta_3,.....) where beta_i = the number of times i occurs in b. For example if b=[11233] then C(b) = (2,1,2). To generate the p(alpha,2) we do the following. sum_alpha p(alpha,2)x^alpha = prod_(b in Phi) prod_(k = 1)^infinity 1/(1- x^(C(b) times k ))^2 = prod_(b in Phi) prod_(k = 1)^infinity (1+ x^(k times C(b)) + x^(2k times C(b)) + x^(3k times C(b)) + ....)^2

Example

E.g p((2,1),2) = # H-conjugacy classes of B_3 where H = Inft((2,1)) isom B_2 times B_1 . Then a(3) = p((3),2) + p((2,1),2) + p((2,0,1),2) + p((1,2),2) + p((1,1,1),2)+ p((1,0,2),2)+ p((0,3),2) + p((0,2,1),2) + p((0,1,2),2) + p((0,0,3),2) =10 + 16 + 16 + 16 + 24 + 16 + 10 + 16 + 16 +10 = 150

Crossrefs

Cf. A124577, A000712.

Sequence in context: A337793 A103885 A262266 * A332566 A085510 A290785

Adjacent sequences: A124575 A124576 A124577 * A124579 A124580 A124581

Keyword

more,nonn

Author

Richard Bayley (r.t.bayley(AT)qmul.ac.uk), Nov 12 2006

Status

approved