{ "id": "0912.1819", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-12-09T18:02:42.000Z", "updated": "2009-12-09T18:02:42.000Z", "title": "Congruence B-Orbits and the Bruhat Poset of Involutions of the Symmetric Group", "authors": [ "Eli Bagno", "Yonah Cherniavsky" ], "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We study the poset of Borel congruence classes of symmetric matrices ordered by containment of closures. We give a combinatorial description of this poset and calculate its rank function. We discuss the relation between this poset and the Bruhat poset of involutions of the symmetric group.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-12-09T18:02:42.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05A05", "20B30" ], "keywords": [ "bruhat poset", "symmetric group", "congruence b-orbits", "involutions", "borel congruence classes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0912.1819B" } } }