{ "id": "1908.07955", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-08-21T16:02:34.000Z", "updated": "2019-08-21T16:02:34.000Z", "title": "A central limit theorem for the two-sided descent statistic on Coxeter groups", "authors": [ "Benjamin Brück", "Frank Röttger" ], "comment": "20 pages incl. appendix", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.GR", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We study the asymptotic behaviour of the statistic (des+ides) which assigns to an element w of a finite Coxeter group W the number of descents of w plus the number of descents of its inverse. Our main result is a central limit theorem for the probability distributions associated to this statistic. This answers a question of Kahle-Stump and generalises work of Chatterjee-Diaconis, \\\"Ozdemir and R\\\"ottger.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-08-21T16:02:34.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20F55", "05A15", "05A16", "60F05" ], "keywords": [ "central limit theorem", "two-sided descent statistic", "finite coxeter group", "main result", "generalises work" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }