Symmetric chain decompositions of B_n and Pi_n

1995/02/09 by Erensto Damiani, Damiani, Erensto, Ottavio M. D’Antona +3
Chemistry · Mathematics · #06A07 05A18 05A10 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Advanced Mathematical Identities #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/9502224

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Abstract

We review the Green/Kleitman/Leeb interpretation of de Bruijn's symmetric chain decomposition of \cal B_n, and explain how it can be used to find a maximal collection of disjoint symmetric chains in the nonsymmetric lattice of partitions of a set.

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