A161436 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group A_4.

1, 4, 9, 15, 20, 22, 20, 15, 9, 4, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

Offset: 0

Author

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

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

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

References

• N. Bourbaki, Groupes et alg. de Lie, Chap. 4, 5, 6. (The group is defined in Planche I.)
• J. E. Humphreys, Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups, Cambridge, 1990. See under Poincaré polynomial.

Crossrefs

Cf. A008302, A161409.

Programs

Mathematica

CoefficientList[Series[(1 - x^2) (1 - x^3) (1 - x^4) (1 - x^5) / (1 - x)^4, {x, 0, 20}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 23 2016 *)

Formula

G.f. for A_m is the polynomial Product_{k=1..m}(1-x^(k+1))/(1-x). Only finitely many terms are nonzero. This is a row of the triangle in A008302.