On the topology of the combinatorial flag varieties

DOI10.1007/S00454-001-0061-8MaRDI QIDQ1597664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandre V. Borovik, I. M. Gel'fand, D. A. Stone

Publication date 30 May 2002

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-001-0061-8

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial flag varietyCoxeter matroidshellability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shellability for polytopes and polyhedra (52B22) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40)

Review text

The main result of this article is to show that the simplicial complex of all chains of matroids of a Coxeter group is shellable. This proves and extends a conjecture of White. A significant portion of the article is devoted to explaining briefly the concept of a Coxeter matroid, and developing certain theoretical tools required for the proof of the main theorem. The article also gives some results about the cohomology groups of certain other complexes.

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