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  2. Hasse diagram - Wikipedia

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    The reason is that, in general, there are many different possible ways to draw a Hasse diagram for a given poset. The simple technique of just starting with the minimal elements of an order and then drawing greater elements incrementally often produces quite poor results: symmetries and internal structure of the order are easily lost.

  3. Partially ordered set - Wikipedia

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    If the number 1 is excluded, while keeping divisibility as ordering on the elements greater than 1, then the resulting poset does not have a least element, but any prime number is a minimal element for it. In this poset, 60 is an upper bound (though not a least upper bound) of the subset {,,,}, which does not have any lower bound (since 1 is ...

  4. Dedekind–MacNeille completion - Wikipedia

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    An element x of S embeds into the completion as its principal ideal, the set ↓ x of elements less than or equal to x. Then (↓ x) u is the set of elements greater than or equal to x, and ((↓ x) u) l = ↓ x, showing that ↓ x is indeed a member of the completion. The mapping from x to ↓ x is an order-embedding. [7]

  5. Series-parallel partial order - Wikipedia

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    The series composition of P and Q, written P; Q, [7] P * Q, [2] or P ⧀ Q, [1] is the partially ordered set whose elements are the disjoint union of the elements of P and Q. In P; Q, two elements x and y that both belong to P or that both belong to Q have the same order relation that they do in P or Q respectively.

  6. Greatest element and least element - Wikipedia

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    These elements are also maximal and minimal elements, respectively, of the red subset. In mathematics, especially in order theory, the greatest element of a subset of a partially ordered set (poset) is an element of that is greater than every other element of .

  7. Order dimension - Wikipedia

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    A partial order of dimension 4 (shown as a Hasse diagram) and four total orderings that form a realizer for this partial order.. In mathematics, the dimension of a partially ordered set (poset) is the smallest number of total orders the intersection of which gives rise to the partial order.

  8. Sperner's theorem - Wikipedia

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    The family of all subsets of an n-element set (its power set) can be partially ordered by set inclusion; in this partial order, two distinct elements are said to be incomparable when neither of them contains the other. The width of a partial order is the largest number of elements in an antichain, a set of pairwise incomparable elements ...

  9. Order theory - Wikipedia

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    Now there are also elements of a poset that are special with respect to some subset of the order. This leads to the definition of upper bounds. Given a subset S of some poset P, an upper bound of S is an element b of P that is above all elements of S. Formally, this means that s ≤ b, for all s in S. Lower bounds again are defined by inverting ...