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The support poset of a monomial ideal $I\subseteq\mathbf{k}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ encodes the relation between the variables $x_1,\dots,x_n$ and the minimal monomial generators of $I$. It is known that not every poset is realizable as the support…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Patricia Pascual-Ortigosa , Eduardo Sáenz-de-Cabezón

We construct a poset from a simple acyclic digraph together with a valuation on its vertices, and we compute the values of its M\"obius function. We show that the weak order on Coxeter groups of type A, B, affine A, and the flag weak order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-23 François Viard

We describe small dominating sets of the incidence graphs of finite projective planes by establishing a stability result which shows that dominating sets are strongly related to blocking and covering sets. Our main result states that if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Tamás Héger , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

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

We discuss the theory of certain partially ordered sets that capture the structure of commutation classes of words in monoids. As a first application, it follows readily that counting words in commutation classes is #P-complete. We then…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Matthew J. Samuel

A subset $A$ of a semigroup $S$ is called a $chain$ ($antichain$) if $xy\in\{x,y\}$ ($xy\notin\{x,y\}$) for any (distinct) elements $x,y\in S$. A semigroup $S$ is called ($anti$)$chain$-$finite$ if $S$ contains no infinite (anti)chains. We…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Iryna Banakh , Taras Banakh , Serhii Bardyla

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$ and two distinct elements $x$ and $y$, we let $\operatorname{pr}_{\mathcal P}(x \prec y)$ denote the fraction of linear extensions of $\mathcal P$ in which $x$ precedes $y$. The balance constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Evan Chen

We provide a Minkowski sum decomposition of marked chain-order polytopes into building blocks associated to elementary markings and thus give an explicit minimal set of generators of an associated semi-group algebra. We proceed by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Xin Fang , Ghislain Fourier , Christoph Pegel

We examine the lattice of all order congruences of a finite poset from the viewpoint of combinatorial algebraic topology. We will prove that the order complex of the lattice of all nontrivial order congruences (or order-preserving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gejza Jenča , Peter Sarkoci

The purpose of this paper is to study stable representations of partially ordered sets (posets) and compare it to the well known theory for quivers. In particular, we prove that every indecomposable representation of a poset of finite type…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Vyacheslav Futorny , Kostiantyn Iusenko

Coxeter groups are equipped with a partial order known as the weak order, such that $u \leq v$ if the inversions of $u$ are a subset of the inversions of $v$. In finite Coxeter groups, weak order is a complete lattice, but in infinite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Grant T. Barkley , David E Speyer

For a lattice L, let Princ L denote the ordered set of principal congruences of L. In a pioneering paper, G. Gratzer characterized the ordered sets Princ L of finite lattices L; here we do the same for countable lattices. He also showed…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Gabor Czedli

The literature provides dichotomies involving homomorphisms (like the G 0 dichotomy) or reductions (like the characterization of sets potentially in a Wadge class of Borel sets, which holds on a subset of a product). However, part of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Dominique Lecomte

We give an asymptotic estimate for the number of partitions of a set of $n$ elements, whose block sizes avoid a given set $\mathcal{S}$ of natural numbers. As an application, we derive an estimate for the number of partitions of a set with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Joshua Culver , Andreas Weingartner

A set $A$ is said to split a finite set $B$ if exactly half the elements of $B$ (up to rounding) are contained in $A$. We study the dual notions: (1) splitting family, which is a collection of sets such that any subset of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Samuel Coskey , Bryce Frederickson , Samuel Mathers , Hao-Tong Yan

An $\mathbb{F}_q$-linear set of rank $k$ on a projective line $\mathrm{PG}(1,q^h)$, containing at least one point of weight one, has size at least $q^{k-1}+1$ (see [J. De Beule and G. Van De Voorde, The minimum size of a linear set, J.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Dibyayoti Jena , Geertrui Van de Voorde

In this paper, our goal is to characterize two graph classes based on the properties of minimal vertex (edge) separators. We first present a structural characterization of graphs in which every minimal vertex separator is a stable set. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Mrinal Kumar , Gaurav Maheswari , N. Sadagopan

Anderson established a connection between core partitions and order ideals of certain posets by mapping a partition to its $\beta$-set. In this paper, we give a characterization of the poset $P_{(s,s+1,s+2)}$ whose order ideals correspond…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Jane Y. X. Yang , Michael X. X. Zhong , Robin D. P. Zhou

Building on classical theorems of Sperner and Kruskal-Katona, we investigate antichains $\mathcal F$ in the Boolean lattice $B_n$ of all subsets of $[n]:=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, where $\mathcal F$ is flat, meaning that it contains sets of at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Jerrold R. Griggs , Sven Hartmann , Thomas Kalinowski , Uwe Leck , Ian T. Roberts

It is known when we call a poset P, a $\mathcal{P}$-chain permutational poset, given a subset of permutations $\mathcal{P}$ of the symmetric group $S_{n}$. In this work, we use the same idea to study subsets of words of length $n$, that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Amrita Acharyya