RESEARCH ARTICLE

Minimax sums of posets and the quadratic Tits form

Vitalij M. Bondarenko, Andrej M. Polishchuk

Institute of Mathematics, Tereshchenkivska 3, 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract: Let $S$ be an infinite poset (partially ordered set) and $\mathbb{Z}_0^{S\cup{0}}$ the subset of the cartesian product $\mathbb{Z}^{S\cup{0}}$ consisting of all vectors $z=(z_i)$ with finite number of nonzero coordinates. We call the quadratic Tits form of $S$ (by analogy with the case of a finite poset) the form $q_S:\mathbb{Z}_0^{S\cup{0}}\to\mathbb{Z}$ defined by the equality $q_S(z)=z_0^2+\sum_{i\in S} z_i^2 +\sum_{i<j, i,j\in S}z_iz_j-z_0\sum_{i\in S}z_i$. In this paper we study the structure of infinite posets with positive Tits form. In particular, there arise posets of specific form which we call minimax sums of posets.

Keywords: poset, minimax sum, the rank of a sum, the Tits form.

MSC: 15A, 16G

Received: 18.11.2003
Revised: 09.02.2004

Language: English

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