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Average-Rare Order Ideals in Functional Preorders

Combinatorics 2025-11-26 v1

Abstract

We prove that for the preorder induced by a function f: V -> V, the family of all order ideals is average-rare, that is, its normalized degree sum (nds) is nonpositive. As a base case in our reduction, we establish the same result for functional partial orders (or rooted forests). We also propose a conjecture related to Frankl's Conjecture. All proofs have been formally verified in the proof assistant Lean 4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.19833,
  title  = {Average-Rare Order Ideals in Functional Preorders},
  author = {Masahiro Hachimori and Kenji Kashiwabara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19833},
  year   = {2025}
}
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