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Optimizing Linear Extensions

Combinatorics 2009-07-28 v2

Abstract

The minimum number of elements needed for a poset to have exactly n linear extensions is at most 2sqrt{n}. In a special case, the bound can be improved to sqrt{n}.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1688,
  title  = {Optimizing Linear Extensions},
  author = {Bridget Eileen Tenner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1688},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in SIAM J Discrete Math

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