ALGEBRAIC COMBINATORICS

Sign-twisted Poincaré series and odd inversions in Weyl groups
Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 2 (2019) no. 4, p. 621-644

Following recent work of Brenti and Carnevale, we investigate a sign-twisted Poincaré series for finite Weyl groups W that tracks “odd inversions”; i.e. the number of odd-height positive roots transformed into negative roots by each member of W. We prove that the series is divisible by the corresponding series for any parabolic subgroup W J , and provide sufficient conditions for when the quotient of the two series equals the restriction of the first series to coset representatives for W/W J . We also show that the series has an explicit factorization involving the degrees of the free generators of the polynomial invariants of a canonically associated reflection group.

Received : 2018-07-24
Revised : 2019-01-17
Accepted : 2019-01-21
Published online : 2019-08-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/alco.62
Classification:  05E15,  05A19,  20F55
Keywords: Weyl group, root system, Poincaré series, inversion 
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Stembridge, John R. Sign-twisted Poincaré series and odd inversions in Weyl groups. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 2 (2019) no. 4, pp. 621-644. doi : 10.5802/alco.62. alco.centre-mersenne.org/item/ALCO_2019__2_4_621_0/

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