The combinatorics of twisted involutions in Coxeter groups

dc.creatorHultman, Axel
dc.date2004-11-19
dc.date2005-05-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:14:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:14:29Z
dc.descriptionThe open intervals in the Bruhat order on twisted involutions in a Coxeter group are shown to be PL spheres. This implies results conjectured by F. Incitti and sharpens the known fact that these posets are Gorenstein* over Z_2. We also introduce a Boolean cell complex which is an analogue for twisted involutions of the Coxeter complex. Several classical Coxeter complex properties are shared by our complex. When the group is finite, it is a shellable sphere, shelling orders being given by the linear extensions of the weak order on twisted involutions. Furthermore, the h-polynomial of the complex coincides with the polynomial counting twisted involutions by descents. In particular, this gives a type independent proof that the latter is symmetric.
dc.description12 pages; minor revisions, to appear in TAMS
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411429
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411429
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/73295
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.titleThe combinatorics of twisted involutions in Coxeter groups
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