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Tree Posets: Supersaturation, Enumeration, and Randomness

Combinatorics 2025-10-15 v3

Abstract

We develop a powerful tool for embedding any tree poset PP of height kk in the Boolean lattice which allows us to solve several open problems in the area. We show that: * If HH is a family in BnB_n with H(q1+ε)(nn/2)|H|\ge (q-1+\varepsilon){n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor} for some qkq\ge k, then HH contains on the order of as many induced copies of PP as is contained in the qq middle layers of the Boolean lattice. This generalizes results of Bukh and of Boehnlein and Jiang which guaranteed a single such copy in non-induced and induced settings respectively. * The number of induced PP-free families of BnB_n is 2(k1+o(1))(nn/2)2^{(k-1+o(1)){n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor}}, strengthening recent independent work of Balogh, Garcia, Wigal who obtained the same bounds in the non-induced setting. * The largest induced PP-free subset of a pp-random subset of BnB_n for pn1p\gg n^{-1} has size at most (k1+o(1))p(nn/2)(k-1+o(1))p{n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor}, generalizing previous work of Balogh, Mycroft, and Treglown and of Collares and Morris for the case when PP is a chain. All three results are asymptotically tight and give affirmative answers to general conjectures of Gerbner, Nagy, Patk\'os, and Vizer in the case of tree posets.

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@article{arxiv.2406.11999,
  title  = {Tree Posets: Supersaturation, Enumeration, and Randomness},
  author = {Tao Jiang and Sean Longbrake and Sam Spiro and Liana Yepremyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11999},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in Canadian Journal of Mathematics

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