Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.52 (2025), 12 pp.

Elise Catania

A Toric Analogue for Greene's Rational Function

Abstract. Given a finite poset, Greene introduced a rational function obtained by summing certain rational functions over the linear extensions of the poset. This function has interesting interpretations and for certain families of posets, it simplifies surprisingly. Greene evaluated this rational function for strongly planar posets in work on the Murnaghan-Nakayama formula.

Develin, Macauley, and Reiner introduced toric posets, which combinatorially are equivalence classes of posets (or rather acyclic quivers) under the operation of flipping maximum elements into minimum elements and vice versa. In this work, we introduce a toric analogue of Greene's rational function for toric posets, and study its properties. In addition, we use toric posets to show that the Kleiss-Kuijf relations, which appear in scattering amplitudes, are equivalent to a specific instance of Greene's evaluation of his rational function for strongly planar posets. We also give an algorithm for finding the set of toric total extensions of a toric poset.


Received: November 15, 2024. Accepted: February 15, 2025. Final version: April 1, 2025.

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