Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
We prove that the number of right ideals of codimension $n$ in the algebra of noncommutative Laurent polynomials in two variables over the finite field
${{\mathbb{F}}_{q}}$ is equal to
$${{\left( q-1 \right)}^{n+1}}_{{}}{{q}^{\frac{\left( n+1 \right)\left( n-2 \right)}{2}}}\sum\limits_{\theta }{{{q}^{inv\left( \theta\right)}}}$$
where the sum is over all indecomposable permutations in ${{S}_{n+1}}$ and where inv
$\left( \theta \right)$ stands for the number of inversions of
$\theta $ .