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Quasisymmetric Functions Distinguishing Trees, Jean-Christophe Aval, Karimatou Djenabou, Peter R. W. Mcnamara Jan 2023

Quasisymmetric Functions Distinguishing Trees, Jean-Christophe Aval, Karimatou Djenabou, Peter R. W. Mcnamara

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A famous conjecture of Stanley states that his chromatic symmetric function distinguishes trees. As a quasisymmetric analogue, we conjecture that the chromatic quasisymmetric function of Shareshian and Wachs and of Ellzey distinguishes directed trees. This latter conjecture would be implied by an affirmative answer to a question of Hasebe and Tsujie about the P-partition enumerator distinguishing posets whose Hasse diagrams are trees. They proved the case of rooted trees and our results include a generalization of their result.


On The Ranks Of String C-Group Representations For Symplectic And Orthogonal Groups, Peter A. Brooksbank Jan 2021

On The Ranks Of String C-Group Representations For Symplectic And Orthogonal Groups, Peter A. Brooksbank

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We determine the ranks of string C-group representations of the groups PSp(4,q)=Ω(5,q), and comment on those of higher-dimensional symplectic and orthogonal groups.


On The Ranks Of String C-Group Representations For Symplectic And Orthogonal Groups, Peter A. Brooksbank Jan 2020

On The Ranks Of String C-Group Representations For Symplectic And Orthogonal Groups, Peter A. Brooksbank

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We determine the ranks of string C-group representations of 4-dimensional projective symplectic groups over a finite field, and comment on those of higher-dimensional symplectic and orthogonal groups.


Orthogonal Groups In Characteristic 2 Acting On Polytopes Of High Rank, Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans, John T. Ferrara Jan 2020

Orthogonal Groups In Characteristic 2 Acting On Polytopes Of High Rank, Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans, John T. Ferrara

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Rank Reduction Of String C-Group Representations, Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans Dec 2019

Rank Reduction Of String C-Group Representations, Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans

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We show that a rank reduction technique for string C-group representations first used in [Adv. Math. 228 (2018), pp. 3207–3222] for the symmetric groups generalizes to arbitrary settings. The technique permits us, among other things, to prove that orthogonal groups defined on d-dimensional modules over fields of even order greater than 2 possess string C-group representations of all ranks. The broad applicability of the rank reduction technique provides fresh impetus to construct, for suitable families of groups, string C-groups of highest possible rank. It also suggests that the alternating group Alt(11)—the only known group having “rank gaps”—is perhaps more unusual …


Polytopes Of Large Rank For Psl(4,Q), Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans Jan 2016

Polytopes Of Large Rank For Psl(4,Q), Peter A. Brooksbank, Dimitri Leemans

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This paper examines abstract regular polytopes whose automorphism group is the projective special linear group PSL(4,q). For q odd we show that polytopes of rank 4 exist by explicitly constructing PSL(4,q) as a string C-group of that rank. On the other hand, we show that no abstract regular polytope exists whose group of automorphisms is PSL(4,2k).