A161437 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group A_5.

1, 5, 14, 29, 49, 71, 90, 101, 101, 90, 71, 49, 29, 14, 5, 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

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

• 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 I.)

Programs

Mathematica

CoefficientList[Series[(1 - x^2) (1 - x^3) (1 - x^4) (1 - x^5) (1 - x^6) / (1 - x)^5, {x, 0, 120}], x] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Aug 23 2016 *)

Formula

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