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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

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be an antichain of finite subsets of $\mathbb{N}$. How quickly can the quantities $|\mathcal{F}\cap 2^{[n]}|$ grow as $n\to\infty$? We show that for any sequence $(f_n)_{n\ge n_0}$ of positive integers satisfying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Paul Balister , Emil Powierski , Alex Scott , Jane Tan

For integers $0 \leq m \leq l \leq n-m$, the truncated Boolean lattice ${\cal B}_n(m,l)$ is the poset of all subsets of $[n] = \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$ which have size at least $m$ and at most $l$. ${\cal C} \subseteq {\cal B}_n(m,l)$ is a {\em…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Béla Bajnok

Given a set $X$, a collection $\mathcal{F} \subset \mathcal{P}(X)$ is said to be $k$-Sperner if it does not contain a chain of length $k+1$ under set inclusion and it is saturated if it is maximal with respect to this probability. Gerbner…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Ryan R. Martin , Nick Veldt

For every integer $n$ with $n \geq 6$, we prove that the Boolean dimension of a poset consisting of all the subsets of $\{1,\dots,n\}$ equipped with the inclusion relation is strictly less than $n$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Marcin Briański , Jędrzej Hodor , Hoang La , Piotr Micek , Katzper Michno

The literature on Dedekind sums is vast. In this expository paper we show that there is a common thread to many generalizations of Dedekind sums, namely through the study of lattice point enumeration of rational polytopes. In particular,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Matthias Beck , Sinai Robins

In an earlier paper we have proposed a novel method to compute the decay width for a general $1\to n$ cascade decay where the propagators are off-shell and may be of different spins. Here, we extend our algorithm to accommodate those decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-22 Joydeep Chakrabortty , Anirban Kundu , Rinku Maji , Tripurari Srivastava

We present a matrix-theoretic approach for studying and enumerating finite posets through their incidence representations, referred to as poset matrices. Naturally labelled posets are encoded as Boolean lower triangular matrices, allowing a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Gi-Sang Cheon , Hong Joon Choi , Gukwon Kwon , Hojoon Lee , Yaling Wang

Let $P$ be a partially ordered set. If the Boolean lattice $(2^{[n]},\subset)$ can be partitioned into copies of $P$ for some positive integer $n$, then $P$ must satisfy the following two trivial conditions: (1) the size of $P$ is a power…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 István Tomon

In 1960, R\'enyi asked for the number of random queries necessary to recover a hidden bijective labeling of n distinct objects. In each query one selects a random subset of labels and asks, what is the set of objects that have these labels?…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-09 Michael Drmota , Abram Magner , Wojciech Szpankowski

We compute the spectrum of the su(m) spin Sutherland model of B_N type, including the exact degeneracy of all energy levels. By studying the large coupling constant limit of this model and of its scalar counterpart, we evaluate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-22 B. Basu-Mallick , F. Finkel , A. Gonzalez-Lopez

In this paper, we present, given a odd integer $d$, a decomposition of the multiset of bar lengths of a bar partition $\lambda$ as the union of two multisets, one consisting of the bar lengths in its $\bar{d}$-core partition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Jean-Baptiste Gramain , Jorn B. Olsson

Let $B_n$ be the poset generated by the subsets of $[n]$ with the inclusion as relation and let $P$ be a finite poset. We want to embed $P$ into $B_n$ as many times as possible such that the subsets in different copies are incomparable. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Gyula O. H. Katona , Dániel T. Nagy

The central spin decoherence problem has been researched for over 50 years in the context of both nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance. Until recently, theoretical models have employed phenomenological stochastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-03 Wayne M. Witzel , Malcolm S. Carroll , Lukasz Cywinski , S. Das Sarma

In 1907, Henry Ernest Dudeney posed a puzzle: ``cut any equilateral triangle \dots\ into as few pieces as possible that will fit together and form a perfect square'' (without overlap, via translation and rotation). Four weeks later, Dudeney…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Erik D. Demaine , Tonan Kamata , Ryuhei Uehara

In 1945-46, C. L. Siegel proved that an $n$-dimensional lattice $\Lambda $ of determinant ${\rm det}(\Lambda )$ has at most $m^{n^2}$ different sublattices of determinant $m\cdot {\rm det}(\Lambda )$. In 1997, the exact number of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Chuanming Zong

Fake coin problems using balance scales to identify one fake coin and its type among n coins (n > 2) were solved by Dyson in 1946. Dyson gave adaptive solutions with the minimum number of weighings where later weighings may be dependent on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Takehiro Tokuda , Yoshimichi Watanabe

Answering several questions of Duffus, Frankl and R\"odl, we give asymptotics for the logarithms of (i) the number of maximal antichains in the n-dimensional Boolean algebra and (ii) the numbers of maximal independent sets in the covering…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Liviu Ilinca , Jeff Kahn

For a subfamily ${F}\subseteq 2^{[n]}$ of the Boolean lattice, consider the graph $G_{F}$ on ${F}$ based on the pairwise inclusion relations among its members. Given a positive integer $t$, how large can ${F}$ be before $G_{F}$ must contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Julian Galliano , Ross J. Kang

Let $P_{d}(n)$ denote the number of $n \times \ldots \times n$ $d$-dimensional partitions with entries from $\left\{0,1,\ldots,n\right\}$. Building upon the works of Balogh-Treglown-Wagner and Noel-Scott-Sudakov, we show that when $d \to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Cosmin Pohoata , Dmitriy Zakharov