On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Helloooooooo !!
>
>> I vote yes. When I teach this, I call this the swapping diagram (not
>> standard terminology). The number of swaps gives you the Bruhat
>> length, if I remember correctly, when you regard S_n as a Coxeter group.
>> The parity gives you the sign of the permutation, which gives you, in
>> turn, the
>> determinant of the associated matrix. It is a very useful diagram:-)
>
>
> Hmmm.... I just took a look at it, and it seems I just can not do this for
> my own purposes. I mean, this diagram can be written, but Permutations
> objets basically *cannot* store a permutation between anything different
> from 1 .... n
> Well, it just supposes that the elements in the permutation have some
> "natural linear ordering", which is the one given by the '<' python
> operator. Here is the code from Permutation.inversions :
>
>          p = self[:]
>         inversion_list = []
>
>         for i in range(len(p)):
>             for j in range(i+1,len(p)):
>                 if  p[i] > p[j]:
>                     #inversion_list.append((p[i],p[j]))
>                     inversion_list.append([i,j])
>
>         return inversion_list
>
> So it looks like I cannot trust it with my strings, for instance :-/
>
> I will write this diagram anyway. It can prove useful to me later, and it
> looks like you could use it anyway ^^;
> It will be ticket #12872.

Okay, I added some comments there.

>
> Nathann
>
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