Degrees of freedom versus dimension for containment orders

Noga Alon; Edward R. Scheinerman

doi:10.1007/BF00143892

Degrees of freedom versus dimension for containment orders

Noga Alon
, Edward R. Scheinerman

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Abstract

Given a family of sets L, where the sets in L admit k 'degrees of freedom', we prove that not all (k+1)-dimensional posets are containment posets of sets in L. Our results depend on the following enumerative result of independent interest: Let P(n, k) denote the number of partially ordered sets on n labeled elements of dimension k. We show that log P(n, k)∼nk log n where k is fixed and n is large.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	11-16
Number of pages	6
Journal	Order
Volume	5
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00143892
State	Published - 1 Mar 1988
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

AMS subject classifications (1980): 06A10 (primary), 14N10 (secondary)
Partially ordered set
containment order
degrees of freedom
partial order dimension

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Algebra and Number Theory
Geometry and Topology
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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