On increasing sequences formed by points from a random finite subset of a hypercube
Combinatorics
2025-07-15 v2
Abstract
Consider , a set of points chosen uniformly at random and independently from the unit hypercube of dimension . Order by using the Cartesian product of the standard orders of . We determine a constant such that, with probability , cardinality of a largest subset of comparable points is at most . The bound complements an explicit lower bound obtained by Bollob\'as and Winkler in 1982. Furthermore, we use Dilworth's theorem on partitions of a set into chains to prove that the cardinality of a largest antichain, i. e. a largest subset of incomparable points, is at least with probability exponentially close to .
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@article{arxiv.2505.05365,
title = {On increasing sequences formed by points from a random finite subset of a hypercube},
author = {Boris Pittel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05365},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Revision: a section on a likely lower bound for the largest antichain size is added