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Russia Izhevsk
Year
2013
Issue
4
Pages
3-12
 Section Mathematics Title The graph of partial orders Author(-s) Al' Dzhabri Kh.Sh.a, Rodionov V.I.a Affiliations Udmurt State Universitya Abstract Any binary relation $\sigma\subseteq X^2$ (where $X$ is an arbitrary set) generates a characteristic function on the set $X^2$: if $(x,y)\in\sigma,$ then $\sigma(x,y)=1,$ otherwise $\sigma(x,y)=0.$ In terms of characteristic functions on the set of all binary relations of the set $X$ we introduced the concept of a binary reflexive relation of adjacency and determined the algebraic system consisting of all binary relations of a set and of all unordered pairs of various adjacent binary relations. If $X$ is finite set then this algebraic system is a graph (“a graph of graphs”). It is shown that if $\sigma$ and $\tau$ are adjacent relations then $\sigma$ is a partial order if and only if $\tau$ is a partial order. We investigated some features of the structure of the graph $G(X)$ of partial orders. In particular, if $X$ consists of $n$ elements, and $T_0(n)$ is the number of labeled $T_0$-topologies defined on the set $X,$ then the number of vertices in a graph $G(X)$ is $T_0(n),$ and the number of connected components is $T_0(n-1).$ For any partial order $\sigma$ there is defined the notion of its support set $S(\sigma),$ which is some subset of $X.$ If $X$ is finite set, and partial orders $\sigma$ and $\tau$ belong to the same connected component of the graph $G(X),$ then the equality $S(\sigma)=S(\tau)$ holds if and only if $\sigma=\tau.$ It is shown that in each connected component of the graph $G(X)$ the union of support sets of its elements is a specific partially ordered set with respect to natural inclusion relation of sets. Keywords binary relation, graph, partial order, finite topology UDC 519.175, 519.115.5 MSC 05C30 DOI 10.20537/vm130401 Received 13 August 2013 Language Russian Citation Al' Dzhabri Kh.Sh., Rodionov V.I. The graph of partial orders, Vestnik Udmurtskogo Universiteta. Matematika. Mekhanika. Komp'yuternye Nauki, 2013, issue 4, pp. 3-12. References Ore O. Theory of graphs, Providence: Amer. Math. Soc. Colloq. Publ., 1962, vol. 18, 270 p. Translated under the title Teoriya grafov, Moscow: Nauka, 1980, 336 p. Harary F., Palmer E. Graphical enumeration, New York-London: Academic Press, 1973, 272 p. Translated under the title Perechislenie grafov, Moscow: Mir, 1977, 324 p. Rodionov V.I. A relation in finite topologies, Journal of Soviet Mathematics, 1984, vol. 24, pp. 458-460. Erne M. On the cardinalities of finite topologies and the number of antichains in partially ordered sets, Discrete Mathematics, 1981, vol. 35, pp. 119-133. Full text