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Induced saturation for complete bipartite posets

Combinatorics 2026-02-04 v5

Abstract

Given s,tNs,t\in\mathbb{N}, a complete bipartite poset Ks,t\mathcal{K}_{s,t} is a poset whose Hasse diagram consists of ss pairwise incomparable vertices in the upper layer and tt pairwise incomparable vertices in the lower layer, such that every vertex in the upper layer is larger than all vertices in the lower layer. A family F2[n]\mathcal{F}\subseteq2^{[n]} is called induced Ks,t\mathcal{K}_{s,t}-saturated if (F,)(\mathcal{F},\subseteq) contains no induced copy of Ks,t\mathcal{K}_{s,t}, whereas adding any set from 2[n]\F2^{[n]}\backslash\mathcal{F} to F\mathcal{F} creates an induced Ks,t\mathcal{K}_{s,t}. Let sat(n,Ks,t)\mathrm{sat}^{*}(n,\mathcal{K}_{s,t}) denote the smallest size of an induced Ks,t\mathcal{K}_{s,t}-saturated family F2[n]\mathcal{F}\subseteq2^{[n]}. It was conjectured that sat(n,Ks,t)\mathrm{sat}^{*}(n,\mathcal{K}_{s,t}) is superlinear in nn for certain values of ss and tt. In this paper, we show that sat(n,Ks,t)=O(n)\mathrm{sat}^{*}(n,\mathcal{K}_{s,t})=O(n) for all fixed s,tNs,t\in\mathbb{N}. Moreover, we prove a linear lower bound on sat(n,P)\mathrm{sat}^{*}(n,\mathcal{P}) for a large class of posets P\mathcal{P}, particularly for Ks,2\mathcal{K}_{s,2} with sNs\in\mathbb{N}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.08651,
  title  = {Induced saturation for complete bipartite posets},
  author = {Dingyuan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.08651},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

10 pages, 9 figures, minor typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:47:37.329Z