The generalized Füredi conjecture holds for finite linear lattices

Tim Hsu, Mark J. Logan, Shahriar Shahriari

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Abstract

We say that a rank-unimodal poset P has rapidly decreasing rank numbers, or the RDR property, if above (resp. below) the largest ranks of P, the size of each level is at most half of the previous (resp. next) one. We show that a finite rank-unimodal, rank-symmetric, normalized matching, RDR poset of width w has a partition into w chains such that the sizes of the chains are one of two consecutive integers. In particular, there exists a partition of the linear lattices Ln (q) (subspaces of an n-dimensional vector space over a finite field, ordered by inclusion) into chains such that the number of chains is the width of Ln (q) and the sizes of the chains are one of two consecutive integers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3140-3144
Number of pages5
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume306
Issue number23 SPEC. ISS.
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 6 2006

Keywords

  • Chain decompositions
  • Generalized Füredi conjecture
  • LYM property
  • Linear lattices
  • Normalized matching property

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