A161880 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_20.

1, 20, 209, 1520, 8644, 40944, 168035, 613756, 2034120, 6206596, 17632836, 47062620, 118870650, 285840940, 657667521, 1454009144, 3100176535, 6394814820, 12796122680, 24898749084, 47210910670, 87394933100

Offset

0,2

Comments

Computed with MAGMA using commands similar to those used to compute A161409.

References

J. E. Humphreys, Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups, Cambridge, 1990. See under Poincaré polynomial.

N. Bourbaki, Groupes et alg. de Lie, Chap. 4, 5, 6. (The group is defined in Planche II.)

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..21.

Formula

G.f. for B_m is the polynomial Prod_{k=1..m}(1-x^(2k))/(1-x). Only finitely many terms are nonzero. This is a row of the triangle in A128084.

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A231059 A161513 A162359 * A074668 A139620 A094311

Adjacent sequences: A161877 A161878 A161879 * A161881 A161882 A161883

Keyword

nonn

Author

John Cannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 30 2009

Status

approved