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Discrete Mathematics
Volume 98, Issue 3, 26 December 1991, Pages 193-206
 
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On the structure of the lattice of noncrossing partitions

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Rodica Simion* and Daniel Ullman

Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA


Received 19 June 1989; 
revised 24 April 1990. 
Available online 27 March 2002.

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We show that the lattice of noncrossing (set) partitions is self-dual and that it admits a symmetric chain decomposition. The self-duality is proved via an order-reversing involution. Two proofs are given of the existence of the symmetric chain decomposition, one recursive and one constructive. Several identities involving Catalan numbers emerge from the construction of the symmetric chain decomposition.

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* This work was carried out in part while R.S. was visiting the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and was partly supported through NSF Grant CCR-8707539.


Discrete Mathematics
Volume 98, Issue 3, 26 December 1991, Pages 193-206
 
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