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Shape and class of Bruhat Intervals

Combinatorics 2025-07-21 v1 Representation Theory

Abstract

We study Bruhat intervals in affine Weyl groups by viewing them as regions of alcoves. In type A~2\widetilde{A}_2 we show that each interval coincides with a generalized permutohedron minus a star-shaped polygon, and we prove a subtler version inside the dominant chamber of type A~n\widetilde{A}_n. Motivated by this geometry, we conjecture that whenever two Bruhat intervals are isomorphic, there exists an isomorphism realized by a piecewise isometry. We prove this when both endpoints are dominant in A~2\widetilde{A}_2 and obtain partial results in A~n\widetilde{A}_n. In the course of proving these results, we made the surprising observation that much of the information contained in a Bruhat interval is already encoded in a tiny portion of it.

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@article{arxiv.2507.14033,
  title  = {Shape and class of Bruhat Intervals},
  author = {Gaston Burrull and Nicolas Libedinsky and Rodrigo Villegas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.14033},
  year   = {2025}
}

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