The m-cover posets and their applications

Abstract: In this article we introduce the

m

-cover poset of an arbitrary bounded poset

m a t h c a l P

, which is a certain subposet of the

m

-fold direct product of

m a t h c a l P

with itself. Its ground set consists of multichains of

m a t h c a l P

that contain at most three different elements, one of which has to be the least element of

m a t h c a l P

, and the other two elements have to form a cover relation in

m a t h c a l P

. We study the

m

-cover poset from a structural and topological point of view. In particular, we characterize the posets whose

m

-cover poset is a lattice for all

m > 0

, and we characterize the special cases, where these lattices are EL-shellable, left-modular, or trim. Subsequently, we investigate the

m

-cover poset of the Tamari lattice

m a t h c a l T_{n}

, and we show that the smallest lattice that contains the

m

-cover poset of

m a t h c a l T_{n}

is isomorphic to the

m

-Tamari lattice

m a t h c a l T_{n}^{(m)}

introduced by Bergeron and Pr'eville-Ratelle. We conclude this article with a conjectural desription of an explicit realization of

m a t h c a l T_{n}^{(m)}

in terms of

m

-tuples of Dyck paths.

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