Bruhat lattices, plane partition generating functions, and minuscule representations (Q2266716)

This paper is an interesting survey article containing a number of new results. The author studies some combinatorial properties of certain posets, minuscule posets and lattices, which play a central role in the geometry of minuscule flag manifolds and related representations of Lie algebras. From the author's summary: ''The Bruhat posets (arising from Weyl groups) which are lattices are classified. Seshadri's standard monomial result for minuscule representations is used to show that certain combinatorially defined generating functions associated to these lattices satisfy certain identities. Independent combinatorial proofs of the other identities are given. Then the combinatorial proofs of these identities are used as a step in a simplified proof of Seshadri's standard monomial result. Partial results to the effect that the Bruhat lattices are the only distributive lattices with such generating function identities are quoted (''Gaussian poset'' conjecture), a potential Dynkin diagram classification result. New proofs of the fact that Bruhat lattices are rank unimodal and strongly Sperner are given.''