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The Tamari lattices have been intensely studied since they first appeared in Dov Tamari’s thesis around 1952. He defined the n-th Tamari lattice T(n) on bracketings of a set of n+1 objects, with a cover relation based on the associativity rule in one direction. Despite their interesting aspects and the

The Tamari lattices have been intensely studied since they first appeared in Dov Tamari’s thesis around 1952. He defined the n-th Tamari lattice T(n) on bracketings of a set of n+1 objects, with a cover relation based on the associativity rule in one direction. Despite their interesting aspects and the attention they have received, a formula for the number of maximal chains in the Tamari lattices is still unknown. The purpose of this thesis is to convey my results on progress toward the solution of this problem and to discuss future work.

A few years ago, Bergeron and Préville-Ratelle generalized the Tamari lattices to the m-Tamari lattices. The original Tamari lattices T(n) are the case m=1. I establish a bijection between maximum length chains in the m-Tamari lattices and standard m-shifted Young tableaux. Using Thrall’s formula, I thus derive the formula for the number of maximum length chains in T(n).

For each i greater or equal to -1 and for all n greater or equal to 1, I define C(i,n) to be the set of maximal chains of length n+i in T(n). I establish several properties of maximal chains (treated as tableaux) and identify a particularly special property: each maximal chain may or may not possess a plus-full-set. I show, surprisingly, that for all n greater or equal to 2i+4, each member of C(i,n) contains a plus-full-set. Utilizing this fact and a collection of maps, I obtain a recursion for the number of elements in C(i,n) and an explicit formula based on predetermined initial values. The formula is a polynomial in n of degree 3i+3. For example, the number of maximal chains of length n in T(n) is n choose 3.

I discuss current work and future plans involving certain equivalence classes of maximal chains in the Tamari lattices. If a maximal chain may be obtained from another by swapping a pair of consecutive edges with another pair in the Hasse diagram, the two maximal chains are said to differ by a square move. Two maximal chains are said to be in the same equivalence class if one may be obtained from the other by making a set of square moves.
ContributorsNelson, Luke (Author) / Fishel, Susanna (Thesis advisor) / Czygrinow, Andrzej (Committee member) / Jones, John (Committee member) / Kierstead, Henry (Committee member) / Spielberg, John (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
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The Tamari lattice T(n) was originally defined on bracketings of a set of n+1 objects, with a cover relation based on the associativity rule in one direction. Since then it has been studied in various areas of mathematics including cluster algebras, discrete geometry, algebraic combinatorics, and Catalan theory.

The Tamari lattice T(n) was originally defined on bracketings of a set of n+1 objects, with a cover relation based on the associativity rule in one direction. Since then it has been studied in various areas of mathematics including cluster algebras, discrete geometry, algebraic combinatorics, and Catalan theory. Although in several related lattices the number of maximal chains is known, the enumeration of these chains in Tamari lattices is still an open problem.

This dissertation defines a partially-ordered set on equivalence classes of certain saturated chains of T(n) called the Tamari Block poset, TB(lambda). It further proves TB(lambda) is a graded lattice. It then shows for lambda = (n-1,...,2,1) TB(lambda) is anti-isomorphic to the Higher Stasheff-Tamari orders in dimension 3 on n+2 elements. It also investigates enumeration questions involving TB(lambda), and proves other structural results along the way.
ContributorsTreat, Kevin (Author) / Fishel, Susanna (Thesis advisor) / Czygrinow, Andrzej (Committee member) / Jones, John (Committee member) / Childress, Nancy (Committee member) / Colbourn, Charles (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
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The Cambrian lattice corresponding to a Coxeter element c of An, denoted Camb(c),

is the subposet of An induced by the c-sortable elements, and the m-eralized Cambrian

lattice corresponding to c, denoted Cambm(c), is dened as a subposet of the

braid group accompanied with the right weak ordering induced by the c-sortable elements

under

The Cambrian lattice corresponding to a Coxeter element c of An, denoted Camb(c),

is the subposet of An induced by the c-sortable elements, and the m-eralized Cambrian

lattice corresponding to c, denoted Cambm(c), is dened as a subposet of the

braid group accompanied with the right weak ordering induced by the c-sortable elements

under certain conditions. Both of these families generalize the well-studied

Tamari lattice Tn rst introduced by D. Tamari in 1962. S. Fishel and L. Nelson

enumerated the chains of maximum length of Tamari lattices.

In this dissertation, I study the chains of maximum length of the Cambrian and

m-eralized Cambrian lattices, precisely, I enumerate these chains in terms of other

objects, and then nd formulas for the number of these chains for all m-eralized

Cambrian lattices of A1, A2, A3, and A4. Furthermore, I give an alternative proof

for the number of chains of maximum length of the Tamari lattice Tn, and provide

conjectures and corollaries for the number of these chains for all m-eralized Cambrian

lattices of A5.
ContributorsAl-Suleiman, Sultan (Author) / Fishel, Susanna (Thesis advisor) / Childress, Nancy (Committee member) / Czygrinow, Andrzej (Committee member) / Jones, John (Committee member) / Spielberg, John (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2017