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Inspired by Yakoubov's 2015 investigation of pattern avoiding linear extensions of the posets called combs, we study pattern avoiding linear extensions of rectangular posets. These linear extensions are closely related to standard tableaux.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-24 David Anderson , Eric S. Egge , Manda Riehl , Lucas Ryan , Ruth Steinke , Yuriko Vaughan

We study the gaps $\Delta p_n$ between consecutive rank sizes in $r$-differential posets by introducing a projection operator whose matrix entries can be expressed in terms of the number of certain paths in the Hasse diagram. We strengthen…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Christian Gaetz , Praveen Venkataramana

Given an input graph and weights on its vertices, the maximum co-2-plex problem is to find a subset of vertices maximizing the sum of their weights and inducing a graph of degree at most 1. In this article, we analyze polyhedral aspects of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alexandre Dupont-Bouillard , Pierre Fouilhoux , Roland Grappe , Mathieu Lacroix

Let $\mathrm{XY_{L,T}}$ denote the class of countably infinite $L$-structures that satisfy the axioms $T$ and in which all homomorphisms of type X (these could be homomorphisms, monomorphisms, or isomorphisms) between finite substructures…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Andrés Aranda

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, we say that a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ is $\mathcal P$-saturated if $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but adding any other set to $\mathcal F$ creates an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Maria-Romina Ivan , Sean Jaffe

One of possible cryptomorphic definitions of a partially ordered set (= a poset) $P$ on a non-empty finite basic set $N$ is in terms of the set ${\cal L}(P)$ of all its linear extensions, that is, in terms of the set of total orders of $N$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Milan Studený , Václav Kratochvíl

We prove that posets of bounded height whose cover graphs belong to a fixed class with bounded expansion have bounded dimension. Bounded expansion, introduced by Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and Ossona de Mendez as a model for sparsity in graphs, is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Veit Wiechert

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, we say that a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ is $\mathcal P$-saturated if $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but adding any other set to $\mathcal F$ creates an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Maria-Romina Ivan , Sean Jaffe

The dimension of a partially ordered set $P$ (poset for short) is the least positive integer $d$ such that $P$ is isomorphic to a subposet of $\mathbb{R}^d$ with the natural product order. Dimension is arguably the most widely studied…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Heather Smith Blake , Jędrzej Hodor , Piotr Micek , Michał T. Seweryn , William T. Trotter

Heath and Pemmaraju conjectured that the queue-number of a poset is bounded by its width and if the poset is planar then also by its height. We show that there are planar posets whose queue-number is larger than their height, refuting the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Kolja Knauer , Piotr Micek , Torsten Ueckerdt

Let $P$ be a finite poset. We will show that for any reasonable $P$-persistent object $X$ in the category of finite topological spaces, there is a $P-$ weighted graph, whose clique complex has the same $P$-persistent homology as $X$.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Francesco Vaccarino , Alice Patania , Giovanni Petri

Begin with a set of four points in the real plane in general position. Add to this collection the intersection of all lines through pairs of these points. Iterate. Ismailescu and Radoi\v{c}i\'{c} (2003) showed that the limiting set is dense…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-11 Joshua Cooper , Mark Walters

We show that given a poset P and and a subposet Q, the integer points obtained by restricting linear extensions of P to Q can be explained via integer lattice points of a generalized permutohedron.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Dorian Croitoru , SuHo Oh , Alexander Postnikov

We revisit classic balancing problems for linear extensions of a partially ordered set $P$, proving results that go far beyond many of the best earlier results on this topic. For example, with $p(x\prec y)$ the probability that $x$ precedes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Max Aires , Jeff Kahn

The coefficients of the chain polynomial of a finite poset enumerate chains in the poset by their number of elements. It has been a challenging open problem to determine which posets have real-rooted chain polynomials. Two new classes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Christos A. Athanasiadis , Theo Douvropoulos , Katerina Kalampogia-Evangelinou

The width of a poset is the size of its largest antichain. Sperner's theorem states that $(2^{[n]},\subset)$ is a poset whose width equals the size of its largest layer. We show that Hamming ball posets also have this property. This extends…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Kada Williams

Here we prove that counting maximum matchings in planar, bipartite graphs is #P-complete. This is somewhat surprising in the light that the number of perfect matchings in planar graphs can be computed in polynomial time. We also prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Istvan Miklos , Miklos Kresz

In 1926, Levi showed that, for every pseudoline arrangement $\mathcal{A}$ and two points in the plane, $\mathcal{A}$ can be extended by a pseudoline which contains the two prescribed points. Later extendability was studied for arrangements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Helena Bergold , Stefan Felsner , Manfred Scheucher

We consider rooted subgraphs in random graphs, i.e., extension counts such as (i) the number of triangles containing a given vertex or (ii) the number of paths of length three connecting two given vertices. In 1989, Spencer gave sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Matas Šileikis , Lutz Warnke

A graph $G$ is said to be a `set graph' if it admits an acyclic orientation that is also `extensional', in the sense that the out-neighborhoods of its vertices are pairwise distinct. Equivalently, a set graph is the underlying graph of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Martin Milanič , Romeo Rizzi , Alexandru I. Tomescu