Homotopy of Non-Modular Partitions and the Whitehouse Module |
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Authors: | Sheila Sundaram |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 06459 |
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Abstract: | We present a class of subposets of the partition lattice
n
with the following property: The order complex is homotopy equivalent to the order complex of
n
– 1, and the S
n
-module structure of the homology coincides with a recently discovered lifting of the S
n
– 1-action on the homology of
n
– 1. This is the Whitehouse representation on Robinson's space of fully-grown trees, and has also appeared in work of Getzler and Kapranov, Mathieu, Hanlon and Stanley, and Babson et al.One example is the subposet P
n
n
– 1 of the lattice of set partitions
n
, obtained by removing all elements with a unique nontrivial block. More generally, for 2 k n – 1, let Q
n
k
denote the subposet of the partition lattice
n
obtained by removing all elements with a unique nontrivial block of size equal to k, and let P
n
k
=
i = 2
k
Q
n
i
. We show that P
n
k
is Cohen-Macaulay, and that P
n
k
and Q
n
k
are both homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres of dimension (n – 4), with Betti number
. The posets Q
n
k
are neither shellable nor Cohen-Macaulay. We show that the S
n
-module structure of the homology generalises the Whitehouse module in a simple way.We also present a short proof of the well-known result that rank-selection in a poset preserves the Cohen-Macaulay property. |
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Keywords: | poset homology homotopy set partition group representation |
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