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Shellability of semidistributive lattices
Abstract
We prove that join-semidistributive shellable lattices are join-extremal. In particular, every semidistributive shellable lattice is extremal. Together with known results, this gives the equivalence between extremality, left modularity, EL-shellability and shellability for semidistributive lattices. This answers open questions of Mühle and Segovia.
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BibTeX
@misc{chen2026shellability,
title = {{Shellability of semidistributive lattices}},
author = {Shuo Chen and Adrien Segovia},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.07382},
eprint = {2609.07382},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07382},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Shellability of semidistributive lattices
AU - Shuo Chen
AU - Adrien Segovia
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.07382
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07382
AB - We prove that join-semidistributive shellable lattices are join-extremal. In particular, every semidistributive shellable lattice is extremal. Together with known results, this gives the equivalence between extremality, left modularity, EL-shellability and shellability for semidistributive lattices. This answers open questions of Mühle and Segovia.
ER -