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Indecomposable Ideals in Incidence Algebras

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Abstract

The elements of a finite partial order PP can be identified with the maximal indecomposable two-sided ideals of its incidence algebra \A\A, and then for two such ideals, IJ    IJ0I\prec J \iff IJ \not=0. This offers one way to recover a poset from its incidence algebra. In the course of proving the above, we classify all of the two-sided ideals of \A\A.

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@article{arxiv.math/0309126,
  title  = {Indecomposable Ideals in Incidence Algebras},
  author = {Rafael D. Sorkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0309126},
  year   = {2009}
}

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plainTeX, 12 pages, no figures To appear in a special issue of Modern Physics Letters A, devoted to the proceedings of ``Balfest'', held May, 2003, in Vietri sul Mare, Italy

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