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Given a poset $P$ we say a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq P$ is centered if it is obtained by `taking sets as close to the middle layer as possible'. A poset $P$ is said to have the centeredness property if for any $M$, among all families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Jozsef Balogh , Sarka Petrickova , Adam Zsolt Wagner

In this paper we introduce a particular lattice of subgroups called a "cyclic-diamond" and show that every finite non-cyclic group contains a cyclic-diamond as a sublattice of its lattice of subgroups. Turning to the infinite case, we show…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Matt Alexander

The Boolean lattice $2^{[n]}$ is the power set of $[n]$ ordered by inclusion. A chain $c_{0}\subset...\subset c_{k}$ in $2^{[n]}$ is rank-symmetric, if $|c_{i}|+|c_{k-i}|=n$ for $i=0,...,k$; and it is symmetric, if $|c_{i}|=(n-k)/2+i$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Istvan Tomon

Let $La(n,P)$ be the maximum size of a family of subsets of $[n]= \{1,2, ..., n \}$ not containing $P$ as a (weak) subposet, and let $h(P)$ be the length of a longest chain in $P$. The best known upper bound for $La(n,P)$ in terms of $|P|$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-28 Dániel Grósz , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

Let $P$ be a partially ordered set. We prove that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then there exists a packing $\mathcal{P}$ of copies of $P$ in the Boolean lattice $(2^{[n]},\subset)$ that covers almost every element of $2^{[n]}$:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Istvan Tomon

For given posets $P$ and $Q$ and an integer $n$, the generalized Tur\'an problem for posets, asks for the maximum number of copies of $Q$ in a $P$-free subset of the $n$-dimensional Boolean lattice, $2^{[n]}$. In this paper, among other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 József Balogh , Ryan R. Martin , Dániel T. Nagy , Balázs Patkós

The dimension is a key measure of complexity of partially ordered sets. Small dimension allows succinct encoding. Indeed if $P$ has dimension $d$, then to know whether $x \leq y$ in $P$ it is enough to check whether $x\leq y$ in each of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Stefan Felsner , Tamás Mészáros , Piotr Micek

For every integer $n$ with $n \geq 4$, we prove that the local dimension of a poset consisting of all the subsets of $\{1,\dots,n\}$ equipped with the inclusion relation is strictly less than $n$, answering a question of Kim, Martin,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Jędrzej Hodor , Jakub Sordyl

The diamond cone is a combinatorial description for a basis of an indecomposable module for the nilpotent factor $\mathfrak n$ of a semi simple Lie algebra. After N. J. Wildberger who introduced this notion, this description was achevied…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-08-17 Boujemaa Agrebaoui , Didier Arnal , Abdelkader Ben Hassine

A Sidon set is a set of integers containing no nontrivial solutions to the equation $a+b=c+d$. We improve on the lower bound on the diameter of a Sidon set with $k$ elements: if $k$ is sufficiently large and ${\cal A}$ is a Sidon set with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Kevin O'Bryant

We combine here Tao's slice-rank bounding method and Gr\"obner basis techniques and apply here to the Erd\H{o}s-Rado Sunflower Conjecture. Let $\frac{3k}{2}\leq n\leq 3k$ be integers. We prove that if $\mbox{$\cal F$}$ be a $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Gábor Hegedüs

In 1989, Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and Pudl\'ak posed the following challenging question: Do planar posets have bounded Boolean dimension? We show that every poset with a planar cover graph and a unique minimal element has Boolean dimension at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Heather Smith Blake , Piotr Micek , William T. Trotter

Let $P$ be a poset of size $2^k$ that has a greatest and a least element. We prove that, for sufficiently large $n$, the Boolean lattice $2^{[n]}$ can be partitioned into copies of $P$. This resolves a conjecture of Lonc.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Vytautas Gruslys , Imre Leader , István Tomon

A graph is $H$-free if it does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. The diamond graph is the graph obtained from $K_4$ by deleting one edge. We prove that if $G$ is a connected graph with order $n\geq 10$, then there exists a subset $S\subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Jingru Yan

Two subsets $A,B$ of an $n$-element ground set $X$ are said to be \emph{crossing}, if none of the four sets $A\cap B$, $A\setminus B$, $B\setminus A$ and $X\setminus(A\cup B)$ are empty. It was conjectured by Karzanov and Lomonosov forty…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Andrey Kupavskii , János Pach , István Tomon

What is the smallest size of a family of subsets of $[n]$ such that it does not contain an induced copy of $Q_2$ as a poset (known as the \textit{diamond}), but adding a new set creates such a copy? It is easy to see that a maximal chain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Maria-Romina Ivan , Sean Jaffe

The Boolean lattice $2^{[n]}$ is the family of all subsets of $[n]=\{1,\dots,n\}$ ordered by inclusion, and a chain is a family of pairwise comparable elements of $2^{[n]}$. Let $s=2^{n}/\binom{n}{\lfloor n/2\rfloor}$, which is the average…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Benny Sudakov , Istvan Tomon , Adam Zsolt Wagner

Let $2^{[n]}$ denote the power set of $[n]:=\{1,2,..., n\}$. A collection $\B\subset 2^{[n]}$ forms a $d$-dimensional {\em Boolean algebra} if there exist pairwise disjoint sets $X_0, X_1,..., X_d \subseteq [n]$, all non-empty with perhaps…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-15 Travis Johnston , Linyuan Lu , Kevin G. Milans

We develop a powerful tool for embedding any tree poset $P$ of height $k$ in the Boolean lattice which allows us to solve several open problems in the area. We show that: * If $H$ is a family in $B_n$ with $|H|\ge (q-1+\varepsilon){n\choose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Tao Jiang , Sean Longbrake , Sam Spiro , Liana Yepremyan

Given a poset $P$, a family $F$ of elements in the Boolean lattice is said to be $P$-saturated if (1) $F$ contains no copy of $P$ as a subposet and (2) every proper superset of $F$ contains a copy of $P$ as a subposet. The maximum size of a…