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Euclidean algorithm for a class of linear orders

Combinatorics 2022-02-10 v1

Abstract

Borrowing inspiration from Marcone and Mont\'{a}lban's one-one correspondence between the class of signed trees and the equimorphism classes of indecomposable scattered linear orders, we find a subclass of signed trees which has an analogous correspondence with equimorphism classes of indecomposable finite rank discrete linear orders. We also introduce the class of \emph{finitely presented linear orders}-- the smallest subclass of finite rank linear orders containing 1\mathbf 1, ω\omega and ω\omega^* and closed under finite sums and lexicographic products. For this class we develop a generalization of the Euclidean algorithm where the \emph{width} of a linear order plays the role of the Euclidean norm. Using this as a tool we classify the isomorphism classes of finitely presented linear orders in terms of an equivalence relation on their presentations using \emph{3-signed trees}.

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@article{arxiv.2202.04282,
  title  = {Euclidean algorithm for a class of linear orders},
  author = {Shashwat Agrawal and Amit Kuber and Esha Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04282},
  year   = {2022}
}

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26 pages

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