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The M\"obius polynomial is an invariant of ranked posets, closely related to the M\"obius function. In this paper, we study the M\"obius polynomial of face posets of convex polytopes. We present formulas for computing the M\"obius…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Meena Jagadeesan , Susan Durst

Recently a new kind of approximation to continuum topological spaces has been introduced, the approximating spaces being partially ordered sets (posets) with a finite or at most a countable number of points. The partial order endows a poset…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Elisa Ercolessi , Giovanni Landi , Paulo Teotonio-Sobrinho

The paper presents some results for reducing the computation of the M\"obius functon of a M\"obius category that arises from a combinatorial inverse semigroup to that of locally finite partially ordered sets. We illustrate the computation…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Emil Daniel Schwab , Juan Villarreal

In important work on the parity of the partition function, Ono related values of the partition function to coefficients of a certain mock theta function modulo 2. In this paper, we use M\"obius inversion to give analogous results which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Marie Jameson , Robert P. Schneider

Considering a linearly ordered set, we introduce its symmetric version, and endow it with two operations extending supremum and infimum, so as to obtain an algebraic structure close to a commutative ring. We show that imposing symmetry…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-11-16 Michel Grabisch

Bipartitional relations were introduced by Foata and Zeilberger in their characterization of relations which give rise to equidistribution of the associated inversion statistic and major index. We consider the natural partial order on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-17 Gábor Hetyei , Christian Krattenthaler

In this paper we describe a novel a procedure to build a linear order from an arbitrary poset which (i) preserves the original ordering and (ii) allows to extend monotonic and antitonic mappings defined over the original poset to monotonic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-15 Nicolas Madrid Labrador , Umberto Straccia

We investigate the poset of strata of a Schubert-like stratification of certain natural compactification of the space of hermitian $n\times n$ matrices. We prove that this poset is a modular ortholattice, we compute its M\"{o}bius function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Liviu I. Nicolaescu

By using exclusively real analysis, we give explicit estimates of some classical summatory functions involving the M\"obius function.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Florian Daval

We show that every complemented modular lattice can be converted into a left residuated lattice where the binary operations of multiplication and residuum are term operations. The concept of an operator left residuated poset was introduced…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Ivan Chajda , Helmut Länger

Looking at some monoids and (semi)rings (natural numbers, integers and p-adic integers), and more generally, residually finite algebras (in a strong sense), we prove the equivalence of two ways for a function on such an algebra to behave…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Patrick Cegielski , Serge Grigorieff , Irene Guessarian

There is a convolution product on 3-variable partial flag functions of a locally finite poset that produces a generalized M\"obius function. Under the product this generalized M\"obius function is a one sided inverse of the zeta function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-15 John Johnson , Max Wakefield

Posets are discrete mathematical structures which are ubiquitous in a broad range of data analysis and machine learning applications. Research connecting posets to the data science domain has been ongoing for many years. In this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Arnauld Mesinga Mwafise

We prove that the M\"obius function is orthogonal to polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_q[x]$ (up to a characteristic condition). We use this orthogonality property to count prime solutions to affine-linear equations of bounded complexity in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Tal Meilin

Let $P$ be a locally finite poset with the interval space $\Int(P)$, and $R$ a ring with identity. We shall introduce the M\"{o}bius conjugation $\mu^\ast$ sending each function $f:P\to R$ to an incidence function $\mu^\ast(f):\Int(P)\to R$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Suijie Wang

A poset is called upper homogeneous (or "upho") if every principal order filter of the poset is isomorphic to the whole poset. We observe that the rank and characteristic generating functions of upho posets are multiplicative inverses of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Sam Hopkins

We investigate Sarnak's conjecture on the M\"obius function in the special case when the test function is the indicator of the set of integers for which a real additive function assumes a given value.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Régis de la Bretèche , Gérald Tenenbaum

We consider two generalizations of Pollack's uncertainty principle for M\"obius inversion to locally finite posets. The first generalization was previously studied by Goh. Here, we provide a simplified sufficient criterion for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Anurag Sahay

We give conditions for a locally finite poset $P$ to have the property that for any functions $f:P\to {\bf C}$ and $g:P\to {\bf C}$ not identically zero and linked by the M\"obius inversion formula, the support of at least one of $f$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Marcel K. Goh

We introduce vincular pattern posets, then we consider in particular the quasi-consecutive pattern poset, which is defined by declaring $\sigma \leq \tau$ whenever the permutation $\tau$ contains an occurrence of the permutation $\sigma$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Antonio Bernini , Luca Ferrari