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A162179
Number of reduced words of length n in the Weyl group B_42.
0
1, 42, 902, 13202, 148091, 1357468, 10587675, 72245074, 440091498, 2430433874, 12315996232, 57824666110, 253554446677, 1045266952884, 4073988274266, 15084671038416, 53281879968821, 180187334962466, 585265396834041
OFFSET
0,2
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.
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A035716 A296011 A161663 * A162411 A010994 A229564
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
John Cannon and N. J. A. Sloane, Nov 30 2009
STATUS
approved