Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 86B.40 (2022), 12 pp.

Sergi Elizalde, Matthew Plante, Tom Roby and Bruce Sagan

Rowmotion on Fences

Abstract. A fence is a poset with elements F={x1,x2,...,xn} and covers
x1 < x2 < ... < xa > xa+1 > ... > xb < xb+1 < ...,
where a,b,... are positive integers. We investigate rowmotion on antichains and ideals of F. In particular, we show that orbits of antichains can be visualized using tilings. This permits us to prove various homomesy results for the number of elements of an antichain or ideal in an orbit. Rowmotion on fences also exhibits a new phenomenon, which we call homometry, where the value of a statistic is constant on orbits of the same size. Along the way, we prove a homomesy result for all self-dual posets and show that any two Coxeter elements in certain toggle groups behave similarly with respect to homomesies which are linear combinations of ideal indicator functions. We end with some conjectures and avenues for future research.


Received: November 25, 2021. Accepted: March 4, 2022. Final version: April 1, 2022.

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