Ricci curvature of Bruhat orders

Abstract

We study the Ricci curvature of the Hasse diagrams of the Bruhat order of finite irreducible Coxeter groups. For this purpose we compute the maximum degree of these graphs for types $B_n$ and $D_n$. The proof uses a new graph $\Gamma (\pi )$ defined for any element $\pi$ in the corresponding group.

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