We consider generalizations of Schützenberger's promotion operator on the set L of linear extensions of a finite poset of size n. This gives rise to a strongly connected graph on L. By assigning weights to the edges of the graph in two different ways, we study two Markov chains, both of which are irreducible. The stationary state of one gives rise to the uniform distribution, whereas the weight...

For a closure space (P,φ) with φ(∅) = ∅, the closures of open subsets of P , called the regular closed subsets, form an ortholattice Reg(P,φ), extending the poset Clop(P,φ) of all clopen subsets. If (P,φ) is a finite convex geometry, then Reg(P, φ) is pseudocomplemented. The Dedekind-MacNeille completion of the poset of regions of any central hyperplane arrangement can be obtained in this way, ...

Results of R. Stanley and M. Masuda completely characterize the hvectors of simplicial posets whose order complexes are spheres. In this paper we examine the corresponding question in the case where the order complex is a ball. Using the face rings of these posets, we develop a series of new conditions on their h-vectors. We also present new methods for constructing poset balls with specific h-...

In this thesis three combinatorial problems are studied in four papers. In Paper 1 we study the structure of the k-assignment polytope, whose vertices are the m× n (0,1)-matrices with exactly k 1:s and at most one 1 in each row and each column. This is a natural generalisation of the Birkhoff polytope and many of the known properties of the Birkhoff polytope are generalised. A representation of...

A join-completion of a poset is a completion for which each element is obtainable as a supremum, or join, of elements from the original poset. It is well known that the join-completions of a poset are in one-to-one correspondence with the closure systems on the lattice of up-sets of the poset. A ∆1-completion of a poset is a completion for which, simultaneously, each element is obtainable as a ...

A join-completion of a poset is a completion for which each element is obtainable as a supremum, or join, of elements from the original poset. It is well known that the join-completions of a poset are in one-to-one correspondence with the closure systems on the lattice of up-sets of the poset. A ∆1-completion of a poset is a completion for which, simultaneously, each element is obtainable as a ...

Let D = (V (D), A(D)) be a digraph. The competition graph of D, is the graph with vertex set V (D) and edge set {uv ∈ `V (D) 2 ́ : ∃w ∈ V (D),−→ uw,−→ vw ∈ A(D)}. The double competition graph of D, is the graph with vertex set V (D) and edge set {uv ∈ `V (D) 2 ́ : ∃w1, w2 ∈ V (D),−−→ uw1,−−→ vw1,−−→ w2u,−−→ w2v ∈ A(D)}. A poset of dimension at most two is a digraph whose vertices are some points ...

(1) Let R be a division ring. Prove that every module over R is free. You will need to use Zorn’s lemma: Recall that a partially order set (=poset) S is a set with a relation x ≤ y defined between some pairs of elements x, y ∈ S, such that: (i) x ≤ x ; (ii) x ≤ y and y ≤ x implies x = y ; (iii) x ≤ y , y ≤ z ⇒ x ≤ z . A chain in S is a subset T ⊂ S such that for all t, t ′ in T , either t ≤ t ′...

Let a poset P be called chain-complete when every chain, including the empty chain, has a sup in P. Many authors have investigated properties of posets satisfying some sort of chain-completeness condition (see [,11, [-31, [6], I-71, [17], [,181, ['191, [,211, [,221), and used them in a variety of applications. In this paper we study the notion of chain-completeness and demonstrate its usefulnes...

We define a new object, called a signed poset, that bears the same relation to the hyperoctahedral group B n (i.e., signed permutations on n letters), as do posets to the symmetric group S n. We then prove hyperoctahedral analogues of the following results: (1) the generating function results from the theory of P-partitions; (2) the fundamental theorem of finite distributive lattices (or Birkho...