Freely braided elements in Coxeter groups

dc.creatorGreen, R. M.
dc.creatorLosonczy, J.
dc.date2003-01-10
dc.date2003-06-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:54:23Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:54:23Z
dc.descriptionWe introduce a notion of "freely braided element" for simply laced Coxeter groups. We show that an arbitrary group element $w$ has at most $2^{N(w)}$ commutation classes of reduced expressions, where $N(w)$ is a certain statistic defined in terms of the positive roots made negative by $w$. This bound is achieved if $w$ is freely braided. In the type $A$ setting, we show that the bound is achieved only for freely braided $w$.
dc.description18 pages, AMSTeX. Results renumbered to agree with published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301104
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301104
dc.identifierAnnals of Combinatorics 6 (2002), 337-348
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/66228
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subject20F55
dc.titleFreely braided elements in Coxeter groups
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