Shellability of noncrossing partition lattices

Christos A. Athanasiadis, Thomas A. Brady, Colum Watt

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society · 2006 · 57 citations · 16 references

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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 $D_n$ and those of exceptional type and rank at least three.

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