The maximal-element invariance conjecture for induced poset saturation
The maximal-element invariance conjecture for induced poset saturation
Let be a finite poset, and let be the poset obtained by adding a new element greater than every element of . Let denote the induced saturation number of . Maximal-element invariance conjecture. The function is bounded if and only if is bounded. The conjecture is motivated by the fact that, for a poset without a unique maximal element, every saturated family contains the full set, so adding a maximal element may preserve boundedness of the saturation number.
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Maria-Romina Ivan and Sean Jaffe, “Gluing Posets and the Dichotomy of Poset Saturation Numbers”, arXiv:2503.12223 (2026).
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