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A162166
Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_38.
0
1, 38, 740, 9842, 100528, 840750, 5994443, 37460020, 209355471, 1062545094, 4956417103, 21455163508, 86870115631, 331163611782, 1195264474584, 4103926538058, 13459612095894, 42317155173498, 127942640917705
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.)
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: A010954 A035714 A161651 * A162392 A010990 A004420
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
John Cannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 30 2009
STATUS
approved