Countable homogeneous linearly ordered posets

  • Authors:
  • Igor Dolinka;Dragan MašUlović

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A relational structure is called homogeneous if each isomorphism between its finite substructures extends to an automorphism of that structure. A linearly ordered poset is a relational structure consisting of a partial order relation on a set, along with a total (linear) order that extends the partial order in question. We characterise all countable homogeneous linearly ordered posets, thus extending earlier work by Cameron on countable homogeneous permutations. As a consequence of our main result it turns out that, up to isomorphism, there is a unique homogeneous linear extension of the random poset, the unique countable homogeneous universal partially ordered set.