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Effective poset inequalities

Combinatorics 2023-09-15 v3 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We explore inequalities on linear extensions of posets and make them effective in different ways. First, we study the Bj\"orner--Wachs inequality and generalize it to inequalities on order polynomials and their qq-analogues via direct injections and FKG inequalities. Second, we give an injective proof of the Sidorenko inequality with computational complexity significance, namely that the difference is in #P\#P. Third, we generalize the Sidorenko inequality to posets with small chain intersections and give complexity theoretic applications.

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@article{arxiv.2205.02798,
  title  = {Effective poset inequalities},
  author = {Swee Hong Chan and Igor Pak and Greta Panova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02798},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

36 pages, 1 figure. Added a reference to Daykin--Daykin--Paterson inequality that were previously presented as Conjecture 4.19 in v2

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