Roland Jégou

N-free posets as generalizations of series-parallel posets

Abstract N-Free posets have recently taken some importance and motivated many studies. This class of posets introduced by Grillet [8] and Heuchenne [11] are very related to another important class of posets, namely the series-parallel posets, introduced by Lawler [12] and studied by Valdes et al. [21]. This paper shows how N-free posets can be considered as generalizations of series-parallel posets, by giving a recursive construction of N-free posets. Furthermore we propose a linear time algorithm to recognize and decompose any N-free poset. This yields some very naturel problems, namely: which are the properties(such as linear time algorithm for some invariant) of series-parallel posets that are kept for N-free posets?

On the Greedy Dimension of a Partial Order

This paper introduces a new concept of dimension for partially ordered sets. Dushnik and Miller in 1941 introduced the concept of dimension of a partial order P, as the minimum cardinality of a realizer, (i.e., a set of linear extensions of P whose intersection is P). Every poset has a greedy realizer (i.e., a realizer consisting of greedy linear extensions). We begin the study of the notion of greedy dimension of a poset and its relationship with the usual dimension by proving that equality holds for a wide class of posets including N-free posets, two-dimensional posets and distributive lattices.

Line directionality of orders

Some orders can be represented by translating convex figures in the plane. It is proved thatN-free and interval orders admit such representations with an unbounded number of directions. Weak orders, tree-like orders and two-dimensional orders of height one are shown to be two- directional. In all cases line segments can be used as convex sets.

On the directionality of interval orders

Abstract In this note we prove that any finite interval order P can be represented in the plane by using translations of line segments, each one having a single direction of motion. We state that |Succ(P)| different directions are sufficient.