The algebra of the Catalan monoid as an incidence algebra: A simple proof
Stuart Margolis, Benjamin Steinberg · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018
We give a direct straightforward proof that there is an isomorphism between the algebra of the Catalan monoid C_n that is, the monoid of all order-preserving, weakly increasing self-maps f of [n] = {1,...,n}, over any commutative ring with identity and the incidence algebra of a certain poset over the ring.