Using the polytopes defined in an earlier paper, we show in this paper the existence of degeneration of a large class of Schubert varieties of to toric varieties by extending the method used by Gonciulea and Lakshmibai for a miniscule to Schubert varieties in .
Distributive lattices form an important, well-behaved class of lattices. They are instances of two larger classes of lattices: congruence-uniform and semidistributive lattices. Congruence-uniform lattices allow for a remarkable second order of their elements: the core label order; semidistributive lattices naturally possess an associated flag simplicial complex: the canonical join complex. In this article we present a characterization of finite distributive lattices in terms of the core label order...
We present a construction of finite distributive lattices with a given skeleton. In the case of an H-irreducible skeleton K the construction provides all finite distributive lattices based on K, in particular the minimal one.
A method is developed for proving non-amenability of certain automorphism groups of countable structures and is used to show that the automorphism groups of the random poset and random distributive lattice are not amenable. The universal minimal flow of the automorphism group of the random distributive lattice is computed as a canonical space of linear orderings but it is also shown that the class of finite distributive lattices does not admit hereditary order expansions with the Amalgamation Property....