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A simple discharging method for forbidden subposet problems

Combinatorics 2017-12-19 v2

Abstract

The poset Yk+1,2Y_{k+1, 2} consists of k+2k+2 distinct elements x1x_1, x2x_2, \dots, xkx_{k}, y1y_1,y2y_2, such that x1x2xky1x_1 \le x_2 \le \dots \le x_{k} \le y_1,~y2y_2. The poset Yk+1,2Y'_{k+1, 2} is the dual of Yk+1,2Y_{k+1, 2} Let La(n,{Yk+1,2,Yk+1,2})\rm{La}^{\sharp}(n,\{Y_{k+1, 2}, Y'_{k+1, 2}\}) be the size of the largest family F2[n]\mathcal{F} \subset 2^{[n]} that contains neither Yk+1,2Y_{k+1,2} nor Yk+1,2Y'_{k+1,2} as an induced subposet. Methuku and Tompkins proved that La(n,{Y3,2,Y3,2})=Σ(n,2)\rm{La}^{\sharp}(n, \{Y_{3,2}, Y'_{3,2}\}) = \Sigma(n,2) for n3n \ge 3 and they conjectured the generalization that if k2k \ge 2 is an integer and nk+1n \ge k+1, then La(n,{Yk+1,2,Yk+1,2})=Σ(n,k)\rm{La}^{\sharp}(n, \{Y_{k+1,2}, Y'_{k+1,2}\}) = \Sigma(n,k). In this paper, we introduce a simple discharging approach and prove this conjecture.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.05057,
  title  = {A simple discharging method for forbidden subposet problems},
  author = {Ryan R. Martin and Abhishek Methuku and Andrew Uzzell and Shanise Walker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05057},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages

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