English

The serpent nest conjecture for accordion complexes

Combinatorics 2017-08-21 v2

Abstract

Consider 2n points on the unit circle and a reference dissection D of the convex hull of the odd points. The accordion complex of D is the simplicial complex of subsets of pairwise noncrossing diagonals with even endpoints that cross a connected set of diagonals of the dissection D. In particular, this complex is an associahedron when D is a triangulation, and a Stokes complex when D is a quadrangulation. We exhibit a bijection between the facets of the accordion complex of D and some dual objects called the serpent nests of D, settling in particular a conjecture stated by F.~Chapoton (2016) in the case of Stokes complexes.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.01534,
  title  = {The serpent nest conjecture for accordion complexes},
  author = {Thibault Manneville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01534},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1703.09953

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