A162176 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_40.

1, 40, 819, 11440, 122589, 1074488, 8020830, 52427192, 306189025, 1622495952, 7895219982, 35623107520, 150221110689, 595982725640, 2237008815175, 7981961442768, 27186526166255, 88708246063240, 278172606877930

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..18.

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: A035715 A035609 A161653 * A162402 A010992 A250584

Adjacent sequences: A162173 A162174 A162175 * A162177 A162178 A162179

Keyword

nonn

Author

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

Status

approved