A monoid for the Grassmannian Bruhat order

Nantel Bergeron and Frank Sottile

Structure constants for the multiplication of Schubert polynomials by Schur symmetric polynomials are known to be related to the enumeration of chains in a new partial order on $S_\infty$, the Grassmann-Bruhat order. Here we present a monoid M for this order analogous to the nil-Coxeter monoid for the weak order on $S_\infty$. For this, we develop the theory of reduced decompositions for M. We use this to give a combinatorial description of the structure constants above. We also give a combinatorial proof of some of the symmetry relations satisfied by these constants.



The manuscript in postscript.
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