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On the dimension of downsets of integer partitions and compositions

Combinatorics 2017-03-22 v1

Abstract

We characterize the downsets of integer partitions (ordered by containment of Ferrers diagrams) and compositions (ordered by the generalized subword order) which have finite dimension in the sense of Dushnik and Miller. In the case of partitions, while the set of all partitions has infinite dimension, we show that every proper downset of partitions has finite dimension. For compositions we identify four minimal downsets of infinite dimension and establish that every downset which does not contain one of these four has finite dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1703.06960,
  title  = {On the dimension of downsets of integer partitions and compositions},
  author = {Michael Engen and Vincent Vatter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06960},
  year   = {2017}
}