Technical Report 207-1988

Title
Interval Dimension is a Comparability Invariant.
Authors
Michel Habib, David Kelly, and Rolf H. Möhring
Publication
Discrete Mathematics, vol. 88, 1991, pp. 211-229
Source
The report may be requested from our secretary Gabriele Klink, email: klink@math.tu-berlin.de
Classification
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Keywords
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Abstract
We allow orders (ordered sets) to be infinite. An interval order is an order that does not contain 2+2 as an induced suborder. The interval dimension of an order is the minimum number of interval orders (on the same set) whose intersection is the given order. We show that orders with the same comparability graph have the same interval dimension, answering a question raised by Dagan, Golumbic and Pinter for finite orders. We also obtain the analogous result for some other notions of dimension.