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About posets for which no lower cover or no upper cover has the fixed point property

Combinatorics 2025-05-20 v3

Abstract

For a finite non-empty set XX, let P(X)\mathfrak{P}(X) denote the set of all posets with carrier XX, ordered by inclusion of their partial order relations. We investigate properties of posets PP(X)P \in \mathfrak{P}(X) for which no lower cover or no upper cover in P(X)\mathfrak{P}(X) has the fixed point property. We derive two conditions, one of them sufficient for that no lower cover of PP has the fixed point property, the other one sufficient for that no upper cover of PP has the fixed point property. If PP itself has the fixed point property, the conditions are even equivalent to the respective total lack of lower or upper covers with the fixed point property. We use the results to confirm a conjecture of Schr\"{o}der.

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@article{arxiv.2109.09431,
  title  = {About posets for which no lower cover or no upper cover has the fixed point property},
  author = {Frank a Campo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09431},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures