Tamari lattice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).

Word forms

Tamari lattice Tamari lattices

Etymology

Introduced by Dov Tamari (1962).

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