# Improved bounds for induced poset saturation

**Authors:** Ryan R. Martin, Heather C. Smith, Shanise Walker

arXiv: 1908.01108 · 2019-08-06

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## Abstract

Given a finite poset $\mathcal{P}$, a family $\mathcal{F}$ of elements in the Boolean lattice is induced-$\mathcal{P}$-saturated if $\mathcal{F}$ contains no copy of $\mathcal{P}$ as an induced subposet but every proper superset of $\mathcal{F}$ contains a copy of $\mathcal{P}$ as an induced subposet. The minimum size of an induced-$\mathcal{P}$-saturated family in the $n$-dimensional Boolean lattice, denoted $\operatorname{sat}^*(n,\mathcal{P})$, was first studied by Ferrara et al. (2017).   Our work focuses on strengthening lower bounds. For the 4-point poset known as the diamond, we prove $\operatorname{sat}^*(n,\mathcal{D}_2)\geq\sqrt{n}$, improving upon a logarithmic lower bound. For the antichain with $k+1$ elements, we prove $\operatorname{sat}^*(n,\mathcal{A}_{k+1})\geq (1-o_k(1))\frac{kn}{\log_2 k}$, improving upon a lower bound of $3n-1$ for $k\geq 3$.

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