The dual stacked upper-bound conjecture for cd-indices of Bruhat intervals

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Let [u,v][u,v] be an interval in the Bruhat order on a Coxeter group, with l(u)=kl(u)=k and l(v)=d+k+1l(v)=d+k+1. Let Φ[u,v]\Phi_{[u,v]} denote its cd-index, and let a dual stacked polytope be a polytope obtained from a simplex by a series of vertex-shavings. The dual stacked upper-bound conjecture. The coefficientwise maximum of all cd-indices Φ[u,v]\Phi_{[u,v]} with l(u)=kl(u)=k and l(v)=d+k+1l(v)=d+k+1 is attained on a Bruhat interval which is isomorphic to a dual stacked polytope of dimension dd with d+k+1d+k+1 facets. Equivalently, the cd-index of such a dual stacked polytope is coefficientwise an upper bound for the cd-indices of all these Bruhat intervals. The conjecture proposes that Bruhat intervals have no larger cd-index coefficients than the explicitly realized dual stacked examples; the source gives no resolution, so the assertion remains open.

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Nathan Reading, “The cd-index of Bruhat intervals”, arXiv:math/0310121 (2003).

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