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Shelling Coxeter-like Complexes and Sorting on Trees
In their work on `Coxeter-like complexes', Babson and Reiner introduced a
simplicial complex associated to each tree on nodes,
generalizing chessboard complexes and type A Coxeter complexes. They
conjectured that is -connected when the tree has
leaves. We provide a shelling for the -skeleton of , thereby
proving this conjecture.
In the process, we introduce notions of weak order and inversion functions on
the labellings of a tree which imply shellability of , and we
construct such inversion functions for a large enough class of trees to deduce
the aforementioned conjecture and also recover the shellability of chessboard
complexes with . We also prove that the existence or
nonexistence of an inversion function for a fixed tree governs which networks
with a tree structure admit greedy sorting algorithms by inversion elimination
and provide an inversion function for trees where each vertex has capacity at
least its degree minus one.Comment: 23 page
A combinatorial non-positive curvature I: weak systolicity
We introduce the notion of weakly systolic complexes and groups, and initiate
regular studies of them. Those are simplicial complexes with
nonpositive-curvature-like properties and groups acting on them geometrically.
We characterize weakly systolic complexes as simply connected simplicial
complexes satisfying some local combinatorial conditions. We provide several
classes of examples --- in particular systolic groups and CAT(-1) cubical
groups are weakly systolic. We present applications of the theory, concerning
Gromov hyperbolic groups, Coxeter groups and systolic groups.Comment: 35 pages, 1 figur
Coxeter-like complexes
Motivated by the Coxeter complex associated to a Coxeter system (W,S), we introduce a simplicial regular cell complex Ξ (G,S) with a G-action associated to any pair (G,S) where G is a group and S is a finite set of generators for G which is minimal with respect to inclusion. We examine the topology of Ξ (G,S), and in particular the representations of G on its homology groups. We look closely at the case of the symmetric group S_n minimally generated by (not necessarily adjacent) transpositions, and their type-selected subcomplexes. These include not only the Coxeter complexes of type A, but also the well-studied chessboard complexes
Subword complexes and nil-Hecke moves
For a finite Coxeter group W, a subword complex is a simplicial complex
associated with a pair (Q, \rho), where Q is a word in the alphabet of simple
reflections, \rho is a group element. We describe the transformations of such a
complex induced by nil-moves and inverse operations on Q in the nil-Hecke
monoid corresponding to W. If the complex is polytopal, we also describe such
transformations for the dual polytope. For W simply-laced, these descriptions
and results of \cite{Go} provide an algorithm for the construction of the
subword complex corresponding to (Q, \rho) from the one corresponding to
(\delta(Q), \rho), for any sequence of elementary moves reducing the word Q to
its Demazure product \delta(Q). The former complex is spherical if and only if
the latter one is the (-1)-sphere.Comment: 6 pages. Comments welcome! arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap
with arXiv:1305.5499; and text overlap with arXiv:1111.3349 by other author
Diagrammatics for Coxeter groups and their braid groups
We give a monoidal presentation of Coxeter and braid 2-groups, in terms of
decorated planar graphs. This presentation extends the Coxeter presentation. We
deduce a simple criterion for a Coxeter group or braid group to act on a
category.Comment: Many figures, best viewed in color. Minor updates. This version
agrees with the published versio
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