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The arity gap of order-preserving functions and extensions of pseudo-Boolean functions

Rings and Algebras 2016-11-22 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to classify order-preserving functions according to their arity gap. Noteworthy examples of order-preserving functions are so-called aggregation functions. We first explicitly classify the Lov\'asz extensions of pseudo-Boolean functions according to their arity gap. Then we consider the class of order-preserving functions between partially ordered sets, and establish a similar explicit classification for this function class.

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@article{arxiv.1003.2192,
  title  = {The arity gap of order-preserving functions and extensions of pseudo-Boolean functions},
  author = {Miguel Couceiro and Erkko Lehtonen and Tamás Waldhauser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.2192},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, material reorganized