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The incidence algebras of posets and acyclic categories

Rings and Algebras 2015-01-13 v1

Abstract

Acyclic categories were introduced by Kozlov and can be viewed as generalised posets. Similar to posets, one can define their incidence algebras and a related topological complex. We consider the incidence algebra of either a poset or acyclic category as the quotient of a path algebra by the parallel ideal. We show that this ideal has a quadratic Groeobner basis with a lexicographic monomial order if and only if the poset or acyclic category is lex-shellable.

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@article{arxiv.1501.02481,
  title  = {The incidence algebras of posets and acyclic categories},
  author = {David Quinn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02481},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages