A162179 Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_42.

1, 42, 902, 13202, 148091, 1357468, 10587675, 72245074, 440091498, 2430433874, 12315996232, 57824666110, 253554446677, 1045266952884, 4073988274266, 15084671038416, 53281879968821, 180187334962466, 585265396834041

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 II.)

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.