2008/06/28 by Richard P. Stanley, Stanley, Richard P. · 6 citations
Mathematics · #06A07 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #math.CO #msc:06A07
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0806.4717
28 pages, 6 figures. Minor corrections and additional references
arxiv created 2008/07/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Promotion and evacuation are bijections on the set of linear extensions of a finite poset first defined by Schutzenberger. This paper surveys the basic properties of these two operations and discusses some generalizations.