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On an extremal problem for poset dimension

Combinatorics 2017-11-28 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let f(n)f(n) be the largest integer such that every poset on nn elements has a 22-dimensional subposet on f(n)f(n) elements. What is the asymptotics of f(n)f(n)? It is easy to see that f(n)n1/2f(n)\geqslant n^{1/2}. We improve the best known upper bound and show f(n)=O(n2/3)f(n)=\mathcal{O}(n^{2/3}). For higher dimensions, we show fd(n)=O(ndd+1)f_d(n)=\mathcal{O}\left(n^\frac{d}{d+1}\right), where fd(n)f_d(n) is the largest integer such that every poset on nn elements has a dd-dimensional subposet on fd(n)f_d(n) elements.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.00176,
  title  = {On an extremal problem for poset dimension},
  author = {Grzegorz Guśpiel and Piotr Micek and Adam Polak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00176},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

removed proof of Theorem 3 duplicating previous work; fixed typos and references

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