If the symmetric group is generated by transpositions corresponding to the edges of a spanning tree we discuss identities they satisfy, including a set of defining relations. We further show that a minimal length factorization of a permutation fixing a terminal vertex does not involve the unique edg
Labelled trees and factorizations of a cycle into transpositions
β Scribed by I.P. Goulden; S. Pepper
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 430 KB
- Volume
- 113
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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