On the central limit theorem for the two-sided descent statistics in Coxeter groups

Abstract

In 2018, Kahle and Stump raised the following problem: identify sequences of finite Coxeter groups Wn for which the two-sided descent statistics on a uniform random element of Wn is asymptotically normal. Recently, Brück and Röttger provided an almost-complete answer, assuming some regularity condition on the sequence Wn. In this note, we provide a shorter proof of their result, which does not require any regularity condition. The main new proof ingredient is the use of the second Wasserstein distance on probability distributions, based on the work of Mallows (Ann. Math. Statist., 1972).