A162210 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group D_7.

1, 7, 27, 77, 181, 371, 686, 1169, 1862, 2800, 4005, 5481, 7210, 9149, 11230, 13363, 15442, 17353, 18983, 20230, 21013, 21280, 21013, 20230, 18983, 17353, 15442, 13363, 11230, 9149, 7210, 5481, 4005, 2800, 1862, 1169, 686, 371, 181, 77, 27, 7, 1, 0

Offset

0,2

References

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

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

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..43.

Index entries for growth series for groups

Formula

The growth series for D_k is the polynomial f(k)*Prod_{i=1..k-1} f(2*i), where f(m) = (1-x^m)/(1-x) [Corrected by N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 07 2021]. This is a row of the triangle in A162206.

Maple

# Growth series for D_k, truncated to terms of order M. - N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 07 2021
f := proc(m::integer) (1-x^m)/(1-x) ; end proc:
g := proc(k, M) local a, i; global f;
a:=f(k)*mul(f(2*i), i=1..k-1);
seriestolist(series(a, x, M+1));
end proc;

Mathematica

n = 7;
x = y + y O[y]^(n^2);
(1-x^n) Product[1-x^(2k), {k, 1, n-1}]/(1-x)^n // CoefficientList[#, y]& (* Jean-François Alcover, Mar 25 2020, from A162206 *)

Crossrefs

The growth series for D_k, k >= 3, are also the rows of the triangle A162206.

Growth series for groups D_n, n = 3,...,50: A161435, A162207, A162208, A162209, A162210, A162211, A162212, A162248, A162288, A162297, A162300, A162301, A162321, A162327, A162328, A162346, A162347, A162359, A162360, A162364, A162365, A162366, A162367, A162368, A162369, A162370, A162376, A162377, A162378, A162379, A162380, A162381, A162384, A162388, A162389, A162392, A162399, A162402, A162403, A162411, A162412, A162413, A162418, A162452, A162456, A162461, A162469, A162492; also A162206.

Sequence in context: A007715 A161439 A039623 * A161716 A162493 A005585

Adjacent sequences: A162207 A162208 A162209 * A162211 A162212 A162213

Keyword

nonn

Author

John Cannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Dec 01 2009

Status

approved