Basic Posets; Author: Neggers, Joseph; Joint Author: Kim, Hee Sik; Book

Author: Neggers, Joseph; Joint Author: Kim, Hee Sik
Book
188 pages
Published: December 1998
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9810235895

This book introduces the reader to the general theory of partially ordered sets, i.e., posets. The text is presented in a rather informal manner, with interesting examples and computations,which rely on the Hassle diagram to build graphical intuition for the structure of finite posits. The proofs of a small number of theorems is included in the appendix. Important examples especially the Letter N poset, which plays a role akin to that of the Petersen graph in providing a candidate counterexample to many propositions, are used repeatedly throughout the text.An introduction to the theory of partially-ordered sets, or posets. The text is presented in rather an informal manner, with examples and computations, which rely on the Hasse diagram to build graphical intuition for the structure of infinite posets.