We investigate the poset structure on the alternating group that arises when the latter is generated by -cycles. We study intervals in this poset and give several enumerative results, as well as a complete description of the orbits of the Hurwitz action on maximal chains. Our motivating example is the well-studied absolute order arising when the symmetric group is generated by transpositions, i.e. -cycles, and we compare our results to this case along the way. In particular, noncrossing partitions arise naturally in both settings.
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DOI: 10.5802/alco.83
Keywords: Symmetric group, Alternating group, Noncrossing partitions, Hurwitz action, zeta polynomial
Mühle, Henri 1; Nadeau, Philippe 2
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Mühle, Henri; Nadeau, Philippe. A poset structure on the alternating group generated by 3-cycles. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 2 (2019) no. 6, pp. 1285-1310. doi : 10.5802/alco.83. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/alco.83/
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