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Cover-Preserving Order Embeddings into Boolean Lattices

Algebra · math.CO · math.RT · posed by Marcel Wild · open

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It is possible to adapt Theorem 1 to arbitrary posets (instead of 0, 1-posets) and to injective maps φ with x < y ⇔ φ(x) < φ(y) (instead of x ≤ y ⇔ φ(x) ≤ φ(y))?

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    Problem: Reconstructed question: for a finite poset PP, not necessarily having 0,10,1, characterize when there is an isometric Boolean order embedding

    φ:P→2[n]\varphi:P\to 2^{[n]}

    such that

    x<Py  ⟺  φ(x)⊊φ(y),dΓ(P)(x,y)=∣φ(x)△φ(y)∣,x<_{P}y \iff \varphi(x)\subsetneq \varphi(y), \qquad d_{\Gamma(P)}(x,y)=|\varphi(x)\triangle\varphi(y)|,

    where Γ(P)\Gamma(P) is the undirected cover graph. The section title “Isometric Order Embeddings” supports including the distance condition. The strict formulation is equivalent to the non-strict one for injective maps. A connected-cover-graph hypothesis is necessary, since ordinary graph distance is not finite between different components; 0,10,1-posets automatically satisfy it.

    Result: Yes. Let Θ\Theta be the Djoković–Winkler relation on edges of Γ(P)\Gamma(P). For an oriented edge abab, write

    Wab={z:d(z,a)<d(z,b)}.W_{ab}=\{z:d(z,a)<d(z,b)\}.

    Then a finite poset PP with connected cover graph admits such a φ\varphi iff:

    1. Γ(P)\Gamma(P) is a partial cube;
    2. the upward cover orientation is coherent on each Θ\Theta-class: if a≺ba\prec b, c≺dc\prec d, and ab Θ cdab\,\Theta\,cd, then
    c∈Wab,d∈Wba.c\in W_{ab},\qquad d\in W_{ba}.

    Proof. Necessity: an isometric embedding of Γ(P)\Gamma(P) into a hypercube makes Γ(P)\Gamma(P) a partial cube. If a≺ba\prec b, then φ(b)=φ(a)∪{i}\varphi(b)=\varphi(a)\cup\{i\} for a unique coordinate ii. Edges in the same Θ\Theta-class change the same coordinate, so all upward edges in that class cross the associated semicube cut in the same direction.

    Sufficiency: assume (1) and (2). Let the coordinates be the Θ\Theta-classes. For each class CC, choose aC≺bC∈Ca_C\prec b_C\in C, set

    HC−:=WaCbC,HC+:=WbCaC,H_C^-:=W_{a_Cb_C},\qquad H_C^+:=W_{b_Ca_C},

    and define

    φ(x)={C:x∈HC+}.\varphi(x)=\{C:x\in H_C^+\}.

    By the standard partial-cube embedding theorem, this map is isometric. Coherence gives, for every cover x≺yx\prec y in class CC,

    φ(y)=φ(x)∪{C}.\varphi(y)=\varphi(x)\cup\{C\}.

    Hence x<y⇒φ(x)⊊φ(y)x<y\Rightarrow \varphi(x)\subsetneq\varphi(y). Conversely, if φ(x)⊊φ(y)\varphi(x)\subsetneq\varphi(y), take a shortest path from xx to yy. Its image is a shortest hypercube path from φ(x)\varphi(x) to φ(y)\varphi(y), so it only adds coordinates. Each step is therefore an upward cover edge, giving a directed cover chain from xx to yy. Thus x<yx<y.

    This gives the desired adaptation; the minimal nn is the number of Θ\Theta-classes.

    Citation: Uses the classical partial-cube characterization of Djoković–Winkler: D. Ž. Djoković, “Distance-preserving subgraphs of hypercubes,” J. Combin. Theory B 14 (1973), 263–267. Source question: Marcel Wild, “Cover-preserving order embeddings into Boolean lattices,” Order 9 (1992), 209–232.

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    model says: correctGPT-5.5 xhigh (SMD judge 1)

    scope Full solution as submitted; SMD novelty classification TYPE1

    PASS

    The proposed characterization correctly addresses the isometric Boolean order-embedding version of the question. The necessity and sufficiency arguments via the Djoković–Winkler partial-cube embedding and coherent orientation of Θ-classes are mathematically sound. The strict/non-strict order formulation is indeed equivalent for injective maps, and the connected cover-graph caveat is appropriate for ordinary graph distance. No fatal gap is apparent.

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    TYPE1

    Classification rationale: I found no explicit published statement of Wild’s arbitrary-poset Question 3 in exactly this Θ-class coherent-orientation form. However, the result is an immediate repackaging of standard partial-cube theory: once the cover graph is a partial cube, the Djoković–Winkler classes are precisely the hypercube coordinates, and order preservation only asks that each coordinate can be signed so all covers in that class point upward. That is a short corollary, not a standalone publishable contribution.

    Literature check: I checked searches around the original title/Question 3, “isometric order embedding poset Boolean lattice,” “partial cube poset,” “Theta class orientation,” “Djokovic-Winkler poset,” “well-graded family/poset,” “st-oriented partial cube,” and learning-space/media literature. The closest literature contains the underlying ingredients: partial-cube Hamming labelings by Θ-classes, well-graded set families, media, and st-oriented partial cubes/learning spaces. I did not find a clear source resolving the exact arbitrary-poset formulation, but the standard references essentially imply it at once.

    Citation: D. Ž. Djoković, “Distance-preserving subgraphs of hypercubes,” J. Combin. Theory B 14 (1973), 263–267. P. Winkler, “Isometric embedding in products of complete graphs,” Discrete Appl. Math. 7 (1984), 221–225. S. Ovchinnikov, Graphs and Cubes, Springer, 2011. Source: M. Wild, “Cover-Preserving Order Embeddings into Boolean Lattices,” Order 9 (1992), 209–232.

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