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Bruhat Order


The Bruhat order on a Coxeter group W is the partial order in which u<=v iff every reduced word for v contains some reduced word for u as a subword (Björner and Brenti 2005, p. 34).


See also

Bruhat Graph, Combinatorial Invariance Conjecture, Coxeter Group, Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomial, Partial Order, Permutation, Reduced Word, Subword

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References

Björner, A. and Brenti, F. Combinatorics of Coxeter Groups. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2005.Björner, A. and Wachs, M. "Bruhat Order of Coxeter Groups and Shellability." Adv. Math. 43, 87-100, 1982.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Bruhat Order." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BruhatOrder.html

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