Hausdorff ’s theorem for posets that satisfy the finite antichain property

Uri Abraham; Robert Bonnet

Fundamenta Mathematicae (1999)

  • Volume: 159, Issue: 1, page 51-69
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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Hausdorff characterized the class of scattered linear orderings as the least family of linear orderings that includes the ordinals and is closed under ordinal summations and inversions. We formulate and prove a corresponding characterization of the class of scattered partial orderings that satisfy the finite antichain condition (FAC).  Consider the least class of partial orderings containing the class of well-founded orderings that satisfy the FAC and is closed under the following operations: (1) inversion, (2) lexicographic sum, and (3) augmentation (where ⟨ P , ⪯ ⟩ augments ⟨P, ≤⟩ iff x ⪯ y whenever x ≤ y). We show that this closure consists of all scattered posets satisfying the

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Abraham, Uri, and Bonnet, Robert. "Hausdorff ’s theorem for posets that satisfy the finite antichain property." Fundamenta Mathematicae 159.1 (1999): 51-69. <http://eudml.org/doc/212319>.

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