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8 papers

math.CO2026

Noncrossing Combinatorics, the Full Twist, and Decategorification of Knot Invariants

Colin Defant, Nathan Williams

Much work in knot theory has consisted of categorifying, and thereby strengthening, knot invariants. We take the opposite approach: decategorification, more commonly called combina…

math.CO2025

Permutahedron Triangulations via Total Linear Stability and the Dual Braid Group

Colin Defant, Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Nathan Williams

For each finite Coxeter group and each standard Coxeter element of , we construct a triangulation of the -permutahedron. For particular realizations of the -permutahed…

math.CO2025

Extended Weak Order for the Rank 3 Universal Coxeter Group

Grant Barkley, Colin Defant, Patricia Hersh +3

The weak order is a classical poset structure on a Coxeter group; it is a lattice when the group is finite but merely a meet-semilattice when the group is infinite. Motivated by pr…

math.CO2025

Rowmotion and Echelonmotion

Colin Defant, Yuhan Jiang, Rene Marczinzik +4

Given a linear extension of a finite poset , we consider the permutation matrix indexing the Schubert cell containing the Cartan matrix of with respect to . This yi…

math.CO2025

Chute Move Posets are Lattices

Ilani Axelrod-Freed, Colin Defant, Hanna Mularczyk +2

For each permutation , we consider the set of reduced pipe dreams for , partially ordered so that cover relations correspond to (generalized) chute moves. Se…

math.PR2025

Reduced Random Walks in the Hyperbolic Plane

Colin Defant, Mitchell Lee

We study Lam's reduced random walk in a hyperbolic triangle group, which we view as a random walk in the upper half-plane. We prove that this walk converges almost surely to a poin…