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September 2018
Sami Assaf, University of Southern California, Inversions for reduced words
The number of inversions of a permutation is the number of pairs (i < j) for which w_i > w_j. This important statistic that arises in many contexts, including as the minimum number of simple transpositions needed to express the…
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