Shellability of noncrossing partition lattices

Christos A. Athanasiadis, Thomas Brady, Colum Watt

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    Abstract

    We give a case-free proof that the lattice of noncrossing partitions associated to any finite real reflection group is EL-shellable. Shellability of these lattices was open for the groups of type Dn and those of exceptional type and rank at least three.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)939-949
    Number of pages11
    JournalProceedings of the American Mathematical Society
    Volume135
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Apr 2007

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