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Two-dimensional partial orderings: Recursive model theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Alfred B. Manaster  and
Joseph G. Rosenstein
Alfred B. Manaster
Affiliation:
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037
Joseph G. Rosenstein
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540
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In this paper and the companion paper [9] we describe a number of contrasts between the theory of linear orderings and the theory of two-dimensional partial orderings.

The notion of dimensionality for partial orderings was introduced by Dushnik and Miller [3], who defined a partial ordering 〈A, R〉 to be n-dimensional if there are n linear orderings of A, 〈A, L1〉, 〈A, L2〉 …, 〈A, Ln〉 such that R = L1 ∩ L2 ∩ … ∩ Ln. Thus, for example, if Q is the linear ordering of the rationals, then the (rational) plane Q × Q with the product ordering (〈x1, y1〉 ≤Q×Q 〈x2, y2, if and only if x1 ≤ x2 and y1 ≤ y2) is 2-dimensional, since ≤Q×Q is the intersection of the two lexicographic orderings of Q × Q. In fact, as shown by Dushnik and Miller, a countable partial ordering is n-dimensional if and only if it can be embedded as a subordering of Qn.

Two-dimensional partial orderings have attracted the attention of a number of combinatorialists in recent years. A basis result recently obtained, independently, by Kelly [7] and Trotter and Moore [10], describes explicitly a collection of finite partial orderings such that a partial ordering is a 2dpo if and only if it contains no element of as a subordering.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 121 - 132
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1980

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