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The order dimension of divisibility

Combinatorics 2021-01-18 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

The Dushnik-Miller dimension of a partially-ordered set PP is the smallest dd such that one can embed PP into a product of dd linear orders. We prove that the dimension of the divisibility order on the interval {1,,n}\{1, \dotsc, n\}, is equal to (logn)2(loglogn)Θ(1){(\log n)^2}(\log\log n)^{-\Theta(1)} as nn goes to infinity. We prove similar bounds for the 22-dimension of divisibility in {1,,n}\{1, \dotsc, n\}, where the 22-dimension of a poset PP is the smallest dd such that PP is isomorphic to a suborder of the subset lattice of [d][d]. We also prove an upper bound for the 22-dimension of posets of bounded degree and show that the 22-dimension of the divisibility poset on the set (αn,n](\alpha n, n] is Θα(logn)\Theta_\alpha(\log n) for α(0,1)\alpha \in (0,1). At the end we pose several problems.

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@article{arxiv.2001.08549,
  title  = {The order dimension of divisibility},
  author = {David Lewis and Victor Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08549},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages

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