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Weak embeddings of posets to the Boolean lattice

Discrete Mathematics 2023-06-22 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to prove that several variants of deciding whether a poset can be (weakly) embedded into a small Boolean lattice, or to a few consecutive levels of a Boolean lattice, are NP-complete, answering a question of Griggs and of Patkos. As an equivalent reformulation of one of these problems, we also derive that it is NP-complete to decide whether a given graph can be embedded to the two middle levels of some hypercube.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08226,
  title  = {Weak embeddings of posets to the Boolean lattice},
  author = {Dömötör Pálvölgyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08226},
  year   = {2023}
}