The Poset of Proper Divisibility

Publication date 18 September 2017

Abstract: We study the partially ordered set

P (a_{1}, l d o t s, a_{n})

of all multidegrees

(b_{1}, d o t s, b_{n})

of monomials

x_{1}^{b_{1}} c d o t s x_{n}^{b_{n}}

which properly divide

x_{1}^{a_{1}} c d o t s x_{n}^{a_{n}}

. We prove that the order complex

D e l t a (P (a_{1}, d o t s, a_{n}))

of

P (a_{1}, l d o t s a_{n})

is (non-pure) shellable, by showing that the order dual of

P (a_{1}, l d o t s, a_{n})

is

m a t h r m C L

-shellable. Along the way, we exhibit the poset

P (4, 4)

as a new example of a poset with

m a t h r m C L

-shellable order dual that is not

m a t h r m C L

-shellable itself. For

n = 2

we provide the rank of all homology groups of the order complex

D e l t a l e f t (P (a_{1}, a_{2}) i g h t)

. Furthermore, we give a succinct formula for the Euler characteristic of

D e l t a l e f t (P (a_{1}, a_{2}) i g h t)

.

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