Line directionality of orders (Q1311417)

The authors extend a result given by I. Rival and J. Urrutia proving that any class of ordered sets, closed by the substitution of antichains and whose chromatic number of the diagram is unbounded, contains for any positive integer \(k\) an ordered set which is not \(k\)-directional. As a consequence, \(N\)-free orders, interval orders and two-dimensional orders may require an arbitrary number of directions. They also give a sufficient condition on \(\text{Succ}(P)\) for the line- directionality of \(P\). Using this condition, they establish the line- directionality of \(N\)-free orders and interval orders using at most \(|\text{Succ}(P)|\) directions. In the last section, they state the line-two-directionality of weak orders, tree-like orders and two-dimensional orders of height one.