Partially abelian squarefree words
Cet article est probablement le dernier texte de mathématiques écrit en vue de sa publication par M. P. Schützenberger, décédé en juillet 1996. Il était offert par son auteur en hommage à André Lentin, à l'occasion d'un colloque tenu en l'honneur de celui-ci le 23 février 1996 ; M. P. Schützenberger, déjà très malade, n'avait pu participer à cette rencontre, mais avait tenu à rédiger, non sans souffrances, une contribution scientifique qui témoignât de son amitié pour A. Lentin. Lorsque je lui dis...
We obtain a presentation for the singular part of the Brauer monoid with respect to an irreducible system of generators consisting of idempotents. As an application of this result we get a new construction of the symmetric group via connected sequences of subsets. Another application describes the lengths of elements in the singular part of the Brauer monoid with respect to the system of generators mentioned above.
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