Abstract

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the statistic $(\operatorname{des}+\operatorname{ides})_W$ which assigns to an element $w$ of a finite Coxeter group $W$ the number of descents of $w$ plus the number of descents of $w^{-1}$. Our main result is a central limit theorem for the probability distributions associated to this statistic. This answers a question of Kahle-Stump and builds upon work of Chatterjee-Diaconis, Özdemir and Röttger.

Highlights

  • Statistical and probabilistic methods in the investigation of combinatorial and algebraic objects are powerful tools and reveal deeply rooted connections between those fields

  • Of greatest significance in probabilistic asymptotics is the central limit theorem (CLT), that is the convergence in distribution of a sequence of random variables, normalised by its mean and its standard deviation, towards the standard Gaussian

  • This paper’s main result is an equivalent formulation of the central limit theorem for a sequence of random variables that arises from a statistic on sequences of finite Coxeter groups

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Summary

Introduction

Statistical and probabilistic methods in the investigation of combinatorial and algebraic objects are powerful tools and reveal deeply rooted connections between those fields. In the appendix we present a discussion of a geometric perspective on the statistic t in the context of the two-sided analogue of the Coxeter complex defined in [9], as well as a table of moments of the statistics des and t for Coxeter groups of type A and B

Central limit theorems and o-notation
Coxeter groups
Coxeter statistics
Fourth moments of T
Fourth moment of D
Moments of T for type An
Moments of T for type Bn
Proof of Theorem 7
CLTs for weighted sums of converging sequences
CLT via the Lindeberg Theorem
Proof of the main theorem
A Geometric interpretation of t
Chamber complexes
B Higher moments of T
Type A
Type B
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