A161880 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_20.

1, 20, 209, 1520, 8644, 40944, 168035, 613756, 2034120, 6206596, 17632836, 47062620, 118870650, 285840940, 657667521, 1454009144, 3100176535, 6394814820, 12796122680, 24898749084, 47210910670, 87394933100, 158210114490, 280501919100, 487725336449, 832684355656

Offset: 0

Author

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

Keywords

• nonn
• fini
• full

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

• Andrew Howroyd, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..400

Crossrefs

Row n=20 of A128084.

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.