Cores and retracts

DOI10.1007/BF01462224MaRDI QIDQ1337566zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Micheale Susan Roddy

Publication date 10 November 1994

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zbMATH Keywords

cores of components maximal connected subsets retract

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06)

Review text

An isotone map of an ordered set \(P\) into \(P\) is called a retract if it is idempotent. The set \(I(P)\) of all retracts of \(P\) is pointwise ordered. In this article necessary conditions are given (Proposition 2.1) when a retract \(r\) covers another retract \(s\) of \(P\): either (i) \(r(P) = s(P)\), (ii) \(r(P) = s(P) \cup \{a\}\), for some \(a \in P - s(P)\), or, (iii) \(s(P) = r(P) \cup \{b\}\), for some \(b \in P - r(P)\). In the conclusion (Section 3) the cores of components of \(I(P)\) (maximal connected subsets of \(I(P)\)) are investigated, where a core is defined by means of ``dismantling sequences. E.g., it is shown (Corollary 3.6) that the cores of a component of retracts have isomorphic images.

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