Thomas McConville
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Gallery Posets of Supersolvable Arrangements
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2014,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AT, 26th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2014)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2444
Gallery Posets of Supersolvable ArrangementsArticle
Authors: Thomas McConville
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Thomas McConville
We introduce a poset structure on the reduced galleries in a supersolvable arrangement of hyperplanes. In particular, for Coxeter groups of type A or B, we construct a poset of reduced words for the longest element whose Hasse diagram is the graph of reduced words. Using Rambau's Suspension Lemma, we show that these posets are homotopy equivalent to spheres. We furthermore conjecture that its intervals are either homotopy equivalent to spheres or are contractible. One may view this as a analogue of a result of Edelman and Walker on the homotopy type of intervals of a poset of chambers of a hyperplane arrangement.