Factoring the characteristic polynomial of a lattice

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2015.06.006zbMATH Open1319.05143arXiv1403.0666OpenAlexW1898022286MaRDI QIDQ490907FDOQ490907

Authors: Joshua Hallam, Bruce E. Sagan 

Publication date: 21 August 2015

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new method for showing that the roots of the characteristic polynomial of certain finite lattices are all nonnegative integers. This method is based on the notion of a quotient of a poset which will be developed to explain this factorization. Our main theorem will give two simple conditions under which the characteristic polynomial factors with nonnegative integer roots. We will see that Stanley's Supersolvability Theorem is a corollary of this result. Additionally, we will prove a theorem which gives three conditions equivalent to factorization. To our knowledge, all other theorems in this area only give conditions which imply factorization. This theorem will be used to connect the generating function for increasing spanning forests of a graph to its chromatic polynomial. We finish by mentioning some other applications of quotients of posets as well as some open questions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0666

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zbMATH Keywords

factorizationquotientcharacteristic polynomialsupersolvableincreasing forestMöbius function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35)

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