%0 Journal Article %T Antichains of positive roots and Heaviside functions %A Frederic Chapoton %J Mathematics %D 2003 %I arXiv %X The ring of locally-constant integer-valued functions on the dominant chamber of the Shi arrangement is endowed with a filtration and a new basis, compatible with this filtration, is found. This basis is compared to the trivial basis. The ring is given a presentation by generators and relations. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303220v1