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Diskr. Mat., 2001 Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 57–74 (Mi dm298)

On the sorting complexity of Cartesian products of partially ordered sets

Yu. B. Nikitin


Abstract: We study the complexity $L(M_n)$ of algorithms for sorting the partially ordered set $M_n$, which is isomorphic to the Cartesian product
$$ K_1\times\ldots\times K_n, $$
where all $K_i$ are taken from some finite family, have a unique maximum element, and are prime with respect to the Cartesian product. For the set $\{M_n\}$, as $n\to\infty$, we obtain the estimates
\begin{align*} L(M_n)&\gtrsim|M_n|\log_{2}|M_n|, \\ L(M_n)&\lesssim(|K_1|+\ldots+|K_n|)|M_n|. \end{align*}
Besides, we prove that for a partially ordered set with one maximum element the Cartesian decomposition into prime factors is unique up to a permutation of the factors.

UDC: 519.7

Received: 18.12.2000

DOI: 10.4213/dm298


 English version:
Discrete Mathematics and Applications, 2001, 11:4, 373–390

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