Four Variations on Graded Posets

Abstract

We explore the enumeration of some natural classes of graded posets, including $(2 + 2)$-avoiding graded posets, $(3 + 1)$-avoiding graded posets, $(2 + 2)$- and $(3 + 1)$-avoiding graded posets, and the set of all graded posets. As part of this story, we discuss a situation when we can switch between enumeration of labeled and unlabeled objects with ease, which helps us generalize a result by Postnikov and Stanley from the theory of hyperplane arrangements, answer a question posed by Stanley, and see an old result of Klarner in a new light.

Keywords

• posets
• combinatorics
• generating functions
• poset avoidance
• linear algebra
• [info.info-dm] computer science [cs]/discrete mathematics [cs.dm]