Facets of the generalized cluster complex and regions in the extended Catalan arrangement of type \(A\) (Q396916)

Summary: In this paper we present a bijection between two well known families of Catalan objects: the set of facets of the \(m\)-generalized cluster complex \(\Delta^m(A_n)\) and that of dominant regions in the \(m\)-Catalan arrangement \(\text{ Cat}^m(A_n)\), where \(m\in\mathbb{N}_{>0}\). In particular, the map which we define bijects facets containing the negative simple root \(-\alpha\) to dominant regions having the hyperplane \(\{v\in V\mid\left\langle v,\alpha \right\rangle=m\}\) as separating wall. As a result, it restricts to a bijection between the set of facets of the positive part of \(\Delta^m(A_n)\) and the set of bounded dominant regions in \(\text{ Cat}^m(A_n)\). Our map is a composition of two bijections in which integer partitions in an \(m\)-dilated \(n\)-staircase shape come into play.