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disjoint sum of posets

Let and be two partially ordered sets (cf. Partially ordered set).

The disjoint sum of and is the disjoint union of the sets and with the original ordering on and and no other comparable pairs. A poset is disconnected if it is (isomorphic to) the disjoint sum of two sub-posets. Otherwise it is connected. The maximal connected sub-posets are called components.

The disjoint sum is the direct sum in the category of posets and order-preserving mappings. The direct product in this category is the Cartesian product with partial ordering

References

[a1] W.T. Trotter, "Partially ordered sets" R.L. Graham (ed.) M. Grötschel (ed.) L. Lovász (ed.) , Handbook of Combinatorics , I , North-Holland (1995) pp. 433–480
How to Cite This Entry:
Disjoint sum of partially ordered sets. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Disjoint_sum_of_partially_ordered_sets&oldid=15649
This article was adapted from an original article by M. Hazewinkel (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article