{ "id": "math/9811067", "version": "v1", "published": "1998-11-10T18:46:29.000Z", "updated": "1998-11-10T18:46:29.000Z", "title": "A sefl-dual poset on objects counted by the Catalan numbers", "authors": [ "Miklos Bona" ], "comment": "6 pages, 1 Figure", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We examine the poset $P$ of 132-avoiding $n$-permutations ordered by descents. We show that this poset is the \"coarsening\" of the well-studied poset $Q$ of noncrossing partitions . In other words, if $x