The Bruhat Order on the Involutions of the Symmetric Group
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In this paper we study the partially ordered set of the involutions of the symmetric group Sn with the order induced by the Bruhat order of Sn . We prove that this is a graded poset, with rank function given by the average of the number of inversions and the number of excedances, and that it is lexicographically shellable, hence Cohen-Macaulay, and Eulerian.
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