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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

In this short paper, we prove the following generalization of a result of Methuku and P\'{a}lv\"{o}lgyi. Let $P$ be a poset, then there exists a constant $C_{P}$ with the following property. Let $k$ and $n$ be arbitrary positive integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-02 István Tomon

Let ||.|| be a norm in R^d whose unit ball is B. Assume that V\subset B is a finite set of cardinality n, with \sum_{v \in V} v=0. We show that for every integer k with 0 \le k \le n, there exists a subset U of V consisting of k elements…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-04 Gergely Ambrus , Imre Barany , Victor Grinberg

We are interested in maximizing the number of pairwise unrelated copies of a poset $P$ in the family of all subsets of $[n]$. We prove that for any $P$ the maximum number of unrelated copies of $P$ is asymptotic to a constant times the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Andrew P. Dove , Jerrold R. Griggs

In the area of forbidden subposet problems we look for the largest possible size $La(n,P)$ of a family $\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^{[n]}$ that does not contain a forbidden inclusion pattern described by $P$. The main conjecture of the area…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Dániel Gerbner , Dániel Nagy , Balázs Patkós , Máté Vizer

It was proved by Scott that for every $k\ge2$, there exists a constant $c(k)>0$ such that for every bipartite $n$-vertex graph $G$ without isolated vertices, there exists an induced subgraph $H$ of order at least $c(k)n$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Zach Hunter

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, how small can a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ be such that $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but $\mathcal F\cup\{X\}$ contains such a copy for all $X\in\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Maria-Romina Ivan , Nandi Wang

We address the following natural but hitherto unstudied question: what are the possible linear extension numbers of an $n$-element poset? Let $\mathbf{LE}(n)$ denote the set of all positive integers that arise as the number of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-17 Noah Kravitz , Ashwin Sah

It is a classical fact that every $n$-element set of positive reals has at least $\binom{n+1}{2}+1$ distinct subset sums, with equality exactly for homogeneous arithmetic progressions (when $n\geq 4$). We establish stability versions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ruben Carpenter , Colin Defant , Noah Kravitz

For each $n\ge 1$ we determine the minimum number of points in a poset with cyclic automorphism group of order $n$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jonathan Ariel Barmak , Agustín Nicolás Barreto

The partition problem is a well-known basic NP-complete problem. We mainly consider the optimization version of it in this paper. The problem has been investigated from various perspectives for a long time and can be solved efficiently in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Susumu Kubo

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

We prove that there is an absolute constant $c>0$ with the following property: if $Z/pZ$ denotes the group of prime order $p$, and a subset $A\subset Z/pZ$ satisfies $1<|A|<p/2$, then for any positive integer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-04 Vsevolod F. Lev

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…

In this paper, we show that if the numbers in the range $[1,2^n]$ satisfy Collatz conjecture, then almost all integers in the range $[2^n+1,2^{n+1}]$ will satisfy the conjecture as $n \to \infty$. The previous statement is equivalent to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Abdelrahman Ramzy

Given a set S of n points in general position, we consider all k-th order Voronoi diagrams on S, for k=1,...,n, simultaneously. We deduce symmetry relations for the number of faces, number of vertices and number of circles of certain…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Roderik C. Lindenbergh

An induced subposet $(P_2,\le_2)$ of a poset $(P_1,\le_1)$ is a subset of $P_1$ such that for every two $X,Y\in P_2$, $X\le_2 Y$ if and only if $X\le_1 Y$. The Boolean lattice $Q_n$ of dimension $n$ is the poset consisting of all subsets of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christian Winter

Given a finite poset $\mathcal{P}$, a family $\mathcal{F}$ of elements in the Boolean lattice is induced-$\mathcal{P}$-saturated if $\mathcal{F}$ contains no copy of $\mathcal{P}$ as an induced subposet but every proper superset of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Ryan R. Martin , Heather C. Smith , Shanise Walker

Extending results of Linial (1984) and Aigner (1985), we prove a uniform lower bound on the balance constant of a poset $P$ of width $2$. This constant is defined as $\delta(P) = \max_{(x, y)\in P^2}\min\{\mathbb{P}(x\prec y),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Ashwin Sah

We classify finite posets with a particular sorting property, generalizing a result for rectangular arrays. Each poset is covered by two sets of disjoint saturated chains such that, for any original labeling, after sorting the labels along…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bridget Eileen Tenner