Technical Report 227-1989

Title
Bounds to the Page Number of Partially Ordered Sets
Author
Maciej M. Syslo
Source
The report may be requested from our secretary Gabriele Klink, email: klink@math.tu-berlin.de
Classification
not available
Keywords
not available
Abstract
In this paper we initiate study of a new poset invariant,the {\it page number}, well-known for graphs. Lower and upper bounds are derived and then they are used to evaluate and to bound the exact value of the page number for some families of posets. Several problems are posed.