The Image of the Pop Operator on Various Lattices

Abstract

Extending the classical pop-stack sorting map on the lattice given by the right weak order on $S_n$, Defant defined, for any lattice $M$, a map $\mathsf{Pop}_{M}: M \to M$ that sends an element $x\in M$ to the meet of $x$ and the elements covered by $x$. In parallel with the line of studies on the image of the classical pop-stack sorting map, we study $\mathsf{Pop}_{M}(M)$ when $M$ is the weak order of type $B_n$, the Tamari lattice of type $B_n$, the lattice of order ideals of the root poset of type $A_n$, and the lattice of order ideals of the root poset of type $B_n$. In particular, we settle four conjectures proposed by Defant and Williams on the generating function \begin{equation*} \mathsf{Pop}(M; q) = \sum_{b \in \mathsf{Pop}_{M}(M)} q^{|\mathscr{U}_{M}(b)|}, \end{equation*} where $\mathscr{U}_{M}(b)$ is the set of elements of $M$ that cover $b$.