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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…

A partition of a finite poset into chains places a natural upper bound on the size of a union of k antichains. A chain partition is k-saturated if this bound is achieved. Greene and Kleitman proved that, for each k, every finite poset has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glenn G. Chappell

The consecutive pattern poset is the infinite partially ordered set of all permutations where $\sigma\le\tau$ if $\tau$ has a subsequence of adjacent entries in the same relative order as the entries of $\sigma$. We study the structure of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Sergi Elizalde , Peter R. W. McNamara

The $P$-partition generating function of a (naturally labeled) poset $P$ is a quasisymmetric function enumerating order-preserving maps from $P$ to $\mathbb{Z}^+$. Using the Hopf algebra of posets, we give necessary conditions for two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Ricky Ini Liu , Michael Weselcouch

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

A chain poset, by definition, consists of chains of ordered elements in a poset. We study the chain posets associated to two posets: the Boolean algebra and the poset of isotropic flags. We prove that, in both cases, the chain posets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Ian T. Johnson

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 introduce two variants of the poset saturation problem. For a poset $P$ and the Boolean lattice $\mathcal{B}_n$, a family $\mathcal{F}$ of sets, not necessarily from $\mathcal{B}_n$, is \textit{projective $P$-saturated} if (i) it does…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Dömötör Pálvölgyi , Balázs Patkós

Motivation coming from the study of affine Weyl groups, a structure of ranked poset is defined on the set of circular permutations in $S_n$ (that is, $n$-cycles). It is isomorphic to the poset of so-called admitted vectors, and to an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-14 Antoine Abram , Nathan Chapelier-Laget , Christophe Reutenauer

We study the signalling structure of higher order quantum maps from an order-theoretic perspective, building on the combinatorial characterization of higher order types by Bisio and Perinotti. We have shown in a previous work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Anna Jenčová

In section 1 we consider a 3-tuple $S=(|S|,\preccurlyeq,E)$ where $|S|$ is a finite set, $\preccurlyeq$ a partial ordering on $|S|,$ and $E$ a set of unordered pairs of distinct members of $|S|,$ and study, as a function of $n\geq 0,$ the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-12 George M. Bergman

A finite ranked poset is called a symmetric chain order if it can be written as a disjoint union of rank-symmetric, saturated chains. If $P$ is any symmetric chain order, we prove that $P^n/\mathbb{Z}_n$ is also a symmetric chain order,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-20 Vivek Dhand

The set of all permutations, ordered by pattern containment, forms a poset. This paper presents the first explicit major results on the topology of intervals in this poset. We show that almost all (open) intervals in this poset have a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Peter R. W. McNamara , Einar Steingrimsson

We introduce the poset of mesh patterns, which generalises the permutation pattern poset. We fully classify the mesh patterns for which the interval [1^\emptyset,m] is non-pure, where 1^\emptyset is the unshaded singleton mesh pattern. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Jason P. Smith , Henning Ulfarsson

Inspired by the infinite families of finite and affine root systems, we consider a "stretching" operation on general crystallographic root systems which, on the level of Coxeter diagrams, replaces a vertex with a path of unlabeled edges. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Will Dana

In this article we introduce the $m$-cover poset of an arbitrary bounded poset $\mathcal{P}$, which is a certain subposet of the $m$-fold direct product of $\mathcal{P}$ with itself. Its ground set consists of multichains of $\mathcal{P}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Myrto Kallipoliti , Henri Mühle

There is a well-known bijection between parking functions of a fixed length and maximal chains of the noncrossing partition lattice which we can use to associate to each set of parking functions a poset whose Hasse diagram is the union of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Melody Bruce , Michael Dougherty , Max Hlavacek , Ryo Kudo , Ian Nicolas

Partially ordered sets (posets) play a universal role as an abstract structure in many areas of mathematics. For finite posets, an explicit enumeration of distinct partial orders on a set of unlabelled elements is known only up to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Christoph Minz

An unlabeled poset is said to be (2+2)-free if it does not contain an induced subposet that is isomorphic to 2+2, the union of two disjoint 2-element chains. Let $p_n$ denote the number of (2+2)-free posets of size $n$. In a recent paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Sergey Kitaev , Jeffrey Remmel

The interval poset of a permutation catalogues the intervals that appear in its one-line notation, according to set inclusion. We study this poset, describing its structural, characterizing, and enumerative properties.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Bridget Eileen Tenner