Triangulations of cyclic polytopes and higher Bruhat orders

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Recently \textit{P. H. Edelman} and \textit{V. Reiner} [Mathematika 43, No. 1, 127-154 (1996; Zbl 0854.06003)] suggested two poset structures \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\) and \({\mathcal S}_2 (n,d)\) on the set of all triangulations of the cyclic \(d\)-polytope \(C(n,d)\) with \(n\) vertices. Both posets are generalizations of the well-studied Tamari lattice. While \({\mathcal S}_2 (n,d)\) is bounded by definition, the same is not obvious for \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\). In the paper by Edelman and Reiner [loc. cit.] the bounds of \({\mathcal S}_2 (n,d)\) were also confirmed for \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\) whenever \(d\leq 5\), leaving the general case as a conjecture. In this paper their conjecture is answered in the affirmative for all \(d\), using several new functorial constructions. Moreover, a structure theorem is presented, stating that the elements of \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d+1)\) are in one-to-one correspondence to certain equivalence classes of maximal chains in \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\). In order to clarify the connection between \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\) and the higher Bruhat order \({\mathcal B} (n-2, d-1)\) of \textit{Yu. I. Manin} and \textit{V. V. Schechtman} [Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 17, 289-308 (1989; Zbl 0759.20002)], we define an order-preserving map from \({\mathcal B} (n-2, d-1)\) to \({\mathcal S}_1 (n,d)\), thereby concretizing a result by \textit{M. M. Kapranov} and \textit{V. A. Voevodsky} [Cah. Topologie Géom. Différ. Catégoriques 32, No. 1, 11-27 (1991; Zbl 0748.18010)] in the theory of ordered \(n\)-categories.




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