Bruhat intervals that are large hypercubes
Abstract
We study the question of finding big Bruhat intervals that are poset hypercubes in the symmetric group . Using permutations suggested by AlphaEvolve (an evolutionary coding agent developed by Google DeepMind), we were led to an unusual situation in which the agent produced a pattern which performed well for the tested, and which we show works well for general . When is a power of 2 we exhibit a hypercube of dimension , matching the largest possible dimension up to a constant multiple. Furthermore, we give an exact characterization of the vertices of this hypercube: they are precisely the \emph{dyadically well-distributed} permutations -- a simple digitwise property that already appeared in connection with Monte Carlo integration and mathematical finance. The maximal dimension of a Bruhat interval that is an hypercube in gives a lower bound (and possibly is equal to) the maximal possible coefficient of the second-highest degree term in the Kazhdan--Lusztig -polynomial in . As a surprising consequence, we obtain a new lower bound of order for the maximal number of frozen variables appearing in the cluster algebras attached to the open Richardson varieties in , and a similar result for moduli spaces of embeddings of Bruhat graphs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.01235,
title = {Bruhat intervals that are large hypercubes},
author = {Jordan Ellenberg and Nicolas Libedinsky and David Plaza and José Simental and Geordie Williamson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01235},
year = {2026}
}
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