## The continuous weak order.(English)Zbl 1446.18004

The paper studies a generalization of the weak Bruhat order on the set of permutations of a set with $$n$$ elements, also known as permutohedron (see, e.g., [N. Caspard et al., in: Lattice theory: special topics and applications. Volume 2. Basel: Birkhäuser/Springer. 215–286 (2016; Zbl 1401.06003)] for more details).
One of the natural generalizations of permutohedra are multinomial lattices (introduced in [M. K. Bennett and G. Birkhoff, Algebra Univers. 32, No. 1, 115–144 (1994; Zbl 0810.06006)] as part of an order-theoretic investigation of rewrite systems associated with common algebraic laws). Elements of a multinomial lattice are multipermutations, i.e., words on a totally ordered finite alphabet $$\Sigma = \{a,b,c,\ldots\}$$ with a fixed number of occurrences of each letter. The weak order on multipermutations is the reflexive and transitive closure of the binary relation $$\prec$$ defined by $$wabu\prec wbau$$ for $$a, b\in\Sigma$$ such that $$a < b$$. If each letter of the alphabet has exactly one occurrence, then these words are permutations, and the ordering is the weak Bruhat ordering.
Multipermutations can be given a geometrical interpretation as discrete increasing paths in some Euclidean cube of dimension $$d=\mathrm{card}(\Sigma)$$, and the weak order can be considered as a way of making these paths into a lattice structure. When $$\mathrm{card}(\Sigma)=2$$, the connection with geometry is well-established, i.e., these lattices are also known as lattices of lattice paths [L. Ferrari and R. Pinzani, J. Stat. Plann. Inference 135, No. 1, 77–92 (2005; Zbl 1082.06006)]. The present paper answers the question on whether the weak order can be extended from discrete paths to continuous increasing paths.
The authors consider the quantale $$Q_{\vee}(\mathbb{I})$$ of join-preserving maps from the unit interval $$\mathbb{I}=[0,1]$$ to itself (with the standard structure of map composition as quantale tensor and the identity map as quantale unit; see, e.g., [D. Kruml and J. Paseka, Handb. Algebra 5, 323–362 (2008; Zbl 1219.06016)] for more details on quantales). With the notation $$[d]_2=\{(i, j)\,|\,1\leqslant i\leqslant j\leqslant d\}$$ for $$d\geqslant 2$$, they show that certain elements (called clopen (closed and open) tuples and denoted $$\mathsf{L}_d(Q_{\vee}(\mathbb{I}))$$) of the product quantale $$Q_{\vee}(\mathbb{I})^{[d]_2}$$ are in bijective correspondence with images of monotone increasing continuous maps $$p:\mathbb{I}\rightarrow\mathbb{I}^d$$ such that $$p(0)=\vec{0}$$ and $$p(1)=\vec{1}$$ (called paths). The obtained lattice-theoretic structure on paths is then said to be the continuous weak order in dimension $$d$$. The authors additionally show that the construction $$\mathsf{L}_d(-)$$ gives a limit-preserving functor from a certain category of lattice-ordered semigroups to the category of lattices.
The paper also has a section devoted to the algebraic structure of the lattices of the form $$\mathsf{L}_d(Q_{\vee}(\mathbb{I}))$$, namely, it characterizes their join-irreducible elements and also shows that these lattices have neither completely join-irreducible elements (an element $$a$$ of a complete lattice $$L$$ is called completely join-irreducible provided that for every subset $$S\subseteq L$$, $$a=\bigvee S$$ implies $$a\in S$$) nor compact elements (an element $$c\in L$$ is said to be compact provided that for every directed subset $$D\subseteq L$$, $$c\leqslant\bigvee D$$ implies $$c\leqslant d$$ for some $$d\in D$$).
The paper is well written and contains most of its required preliminaries. Despite its rather technical nature (and a number of lengthy proofs), the paper will be of interest to all the researchers doing lattice theory.

### MSC:

 18B35 Preorders, orders, domains and lattices (viewed as categories) 05A05 Permutations, words, matrices 06A15 Galois correspondences, closure operators (in relation to ordered sets) 06B23 Complete lattices, completions 06F07 Quantales 18F75 Quantales 52B99 Polytopes and polyhedra

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Zbl 1401.06003; Zbl 0810.06006; Zbl 1082.06006; Zbl 1219.06016
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