Pairs of orthogonal countable ordinals
Combinatorics
2014-07-04 v1
Abstract
We characterize pairs of orthogonal countable ordinals. Two ordinals and are orthogonal if there are two linear orders and on the same set with order types and respectively such that the only maps preserving both orders are the constant maps and the identity map. We prove that if and are two countable ordinals, with , then and are orthogonal if and only if either or and .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.0940,
title = {Pairs of orthogonal countable ordinals},
author = {Claude Laflamme and Maurice Pouzet and Nobert Sauer and Imed Zaguia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0940},
year = {2014}
}