The fish-scale conjecture for posets

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Let PP be a poset containing no infinite antichain. A chain is a pairwise comparable subset of PP, and an antichain is a pairwise incomparable subset. Fish-scale conjecture. There exist a chain CC and a decomposition of the vertex set into antichains AiA_i such that CC meets every antichain AiA_i. The text identifies this as an open problem and notes that its dual follows from the infinite version of König’s theorem.

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Ron Aharoni and Eli Berger, “Menger's theorem for infinite graphs”, arXiv:math/0509397 (2007).

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