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Bruhat Intervals in the Infinite Symmetric Group are Cohen-Macaulay

Combinatorics 2026-01-21 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We show that the (non-Noetherian) Stanley-Reisner ring of the order complex of certain intervals in the Bruhat order on the infinite symmetric group SS_\infty of all auto-bijections of N\mathbb{N} is Cohen-Macaulay in the sense of ideals and weak Bourbaki unmixed. This gives an infinite-dimensional version of results due to Edelman, Bj\"{o}rner, and Kind and Kleinschmidt for finite symmetric groups SnS_n.

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@article{arxiv.2601.12195,
  title  = {Bruhat Intervals in the Infinite Symmetric Group are Cohen-Macaulay},
  author = {Nathaniel Gallup and Leo Gray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12195},
  year   = {2026}
}

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