On lexicographically shellable posets

Lexicographically shellable partially ordered sets are studied. A new recursive formulation of CL-shellability is introduced and exploited. It is shown that face lattices of convex polytopes, totally semimodular posets, posets of injective and normal words and lattices of bilinear forms are CL-shellable. Finally, it is shown that several common operations on graded posets preserve shellability and CL-shellability.