OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
The number of ordered pairs in the Bruhat order of the Weyl group B_n (the hyperoctahedral group).
REFERENCES
A. Bjorner and F. Brenti, Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups, Springer, 2009, 27-64.
LINKS
V. V. Deodhar, On Bruhat ordering and weight-lattice ordering for a Weyl group, Indagationes Mathematicae, vol. 81, 1 (1978), 423-435.
Wikipedia, Bruhat order
EXAMPLE
For n=1 the elements are 1 (identity) and s1. The order relation consists of pairs (1, 1), (1, s1), and (s1, s1). So a(1) = 3.
For n=2 the line (Hasse) diagram is below.
s2*s1*s2*s1
/ \
s2*s1*s2 s1*s2*s1
| X |
s2*s1 s1*s2
| X |
s2 s1
\ /
1
The order relation is formed by 8 reflexive pairs, 12 pairs shown as edges in the diagram, and 13 pairs taken by transitivity: (1, s2*s1), (1, s1*s2), (1, s2*s1*s2), (1, s1*s2*s1), (1, s2*s1*s2*s1), (s2, s2*s1*s2), (s2, s1*s2*s1), (s2, s2*s1*s2*s1), (s1, s2*s1*s2), (s1, s1*s2*s1), (s1, s2*s1*s2*s1), (s2*s1, s2*s1*s2*s1), (s1*s2, s2*s1*s2*s1). So a(2) = 8+12+13 = 33.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
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AUTHOR
Dmitry I. Ignatov, May 19 2025
STATUS
approved
