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Trimness of Closed Intervals in Cambrian Semilattices

Combinatorics 2016-07-27 v2

Abstract

In this article, we give a short algebraic proof that all closed intervals in a γ\gamma-Cambrian semilattice Cγ\mathcal{C}_{\gamma} are trim for any Coxeter group WW and any Coxeter element γW\gamma\in W. This means that if such an interval has length kk, then there exists a maximal chain of length kk consisting of left-modular elements, and there are precisely kk join- and kk meet-irreducible elements in this interval. Consequently every graded interval in Cγ\mathcal{C}_{\gamma} is distributive. This problem was open for any Coxeter group that is not a Weyl group.

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@article{arxiv.1501.02619,
  title  = {Trimness of Closed Intervals in Cambrian Semilattices},
  author = {Henri Mühle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02619},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Final version. The contents of this paper were formerly part of my now withdrawn submission arXiv:1312.4449. 12 pages, 3 figures