Complexes of Injective Words and Their Commutation Classes

Abstract

Let $S$ be a finite alphabet. An injective word over $S$ is a word over $S$ such that each letter in $S$ appears at most once in the word. We study Boolean cell complexes of injective words over $S$ and their commutation classes. This generalizes work by Farmer and by Björner and Wachs on the complex of all injective words.