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Improved bounds for the dimension of divisibility

Combinatorics 2024-01-26 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

The dimension of a partially-ordered set PP is the smallest integer dd such that one can embed PP into a product of dd linear orders. We prove that the dimension of the divisibility order on the interval {1,,n}\{1, \dotsc, n\} is bounded above by C(logn)2(loglogn)2logloglognC(\log n)^2 (\log \log n)^{-2} \log \log \log n as nn goes to infinity. This improves a recent result by Lewis and the first author, who showed an upper bound of C(logn)2(loglogn)1C(\log n)^2 (\log \log n)^{-1} and a lower bound of c(logn)2(loglogn)2c(\log n)^2 (\log \log n)^{-2}, asymptotically. To obtain these bounds, we provide a refinement of a bound of F\"uredi and Kahn and exploit a connection between the dimension of the divisibility order and the maximum size of rr-cover-free families.

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@article{arxiv.2202.04001,
  title  = {Improved bounds for the dimension of divisibility},
  author = {Victor Souza and Leo Versteegen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.04001},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, improved exposition