A161956 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_28.

1, 28, 405, 4032, 31058, 197288, 1075697, 5174180, 22396787, 88562288, 323686749, 1103799420, 3538931886, 10735761372, 30981056614, 85436083852, 226032307036, 575653531156, 1415485760287, 3369314791024, 7781762472652, 17474847498496, 38225466707386, 81586894793272

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..784

Crossrefs

Row n=28 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.