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Is the Symmetric Group Sperner?

Larry H. Harper, Gene B. Kim

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An antichain $\mathcal{A}$ in a poset $\mathcal{P}$ is a subset of $\mathcal{P}$ in which no two elements are comparable. Sperner showed that the maximal antichain in the Boolean lattice, $\mathcal{B}_n = \left\{ 0 < 1 \right\}^n$, is the largest rank (of size $\binom{n}{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor}$). This type of problem has been since generalized, and a graded poset $\mathcal{P}$ is said to be Sperner if the largest rank of $\mathcal{P}$ is its maximal antichain. In this paper, we will show that the symmetric group $S_n$, partially ordered by refinement (or equivalently by absolute order), is Sperner.

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An antichain $\mathcal{A}$ in a poset $\mathcal{P}$ is a subset of $\mathcal{P}$ in which no two elements are comparable. Sperner showed that the maximal antichain in the Boolean lattice, $\mathcal{B}_n = \left\{ 0 < 1 \right\}^n$, is the largest rank (of size $\binom{n}{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor}$). This type of problem has been since generalized, and a graded poset $\mathcal{P}$ is said to be Sperner if the largest rank of $\mathcal{P}$ is its maximal antichain. In this paper, we will show that the symmetric group $S_n$, partially ordered by refinement (or equivalently by absolute order), is Sperner.

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An antichain $\mathcal{A}$ in a poset $\mathcal{P}$ is a subset of $\mathcal{P}$ in which no two elements are comparable. Sperner showed that the maximal antichain in the Boolean lattice, $\mathcal{B}_n = \left\{ 0 < 1 \right\}^n$, is the largest rank (of size $\binom{n}{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor}$). This type of problem has been since generalized, and a graded poset $\mathcal{P}$ is said to be Sperner if the largest rank of $\mathcal{P}$ is its maximal antichain. In this paper, we will show that the symmetric group $S_n$, partially ordered by refinement (or equivalently by absolute order), is Sperner.

Key concepts: Antichain, Partially ordered set, Combinatorics, Mathematics, Rank (graph theory), Lattice (music), Group (periodic table), Discrete mathematics

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