Commutation classes of reduced words and higher Bruhat orders for affine permutations

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Main Authors: Billey, Sara, Chau, Herman, Liu, Kevin
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author Billey, Sara
Chau, Herman
Liu, Kevin
author_facet Billey, Sara
Chau, Herman
Liu, Kevin
contents The higher Bruhat orders are partial orders that generalize the weak order on the symmetric group $S_n$, and the second higher Bruhat order is a poset on commutation classes of reduced words for the longest element in $S_n$, where covering relations correspond to braid relations. Constructing analogs in other settings is an area of recent interest, and we present an analog that generalizes any interval $[id,w]$ in the weak order of both the symmetric group and the affine symmetric group. Paralleling the classical case, we show that the second higher Bruhat order is a poset on commutation classes of reduced words for any affine permutation. For the symmetric group, we also establish results for all higher Bruhat orders that are direct analogs of those in the classical case.
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spellingShingle Commutation classes of reduced words and higher Bruhat orders for affine permutations
Billey, Sara
Chau, Herman
Liu, Kevin
Combinatorics
05E16 (Primary) 06A07, 20F55, 05A05 (Secondary)
The higher Bruhat orders are partial orders that generalize the weak order on the symmetric group $S_n$, and the second higher Bruhat order is a poset on commutation classes of reduced words for the longest element in $S_n$, where covering relations correspond to braid relations. Constructing analogs in other settings is an area of recent interest, and we present an analog that generalizes any interval $[id,w]$ in the weak order of both the symmetric group and the affine symmetric group. Paralleling the classical case, we show that the second higher Bruhat order is a poset on commutation classes of reduced words for any affine permutation. For the symmetric group, we also establish results for all higher Bruhat orders that are direct analogs of those in the classical case.
title Commutation classes of reduced words and higher Bruhat orders for affine permutations
topic Combinatorics
05E16 (Primary) 06A07, 20F55, 05A05 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24573