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Structure of partially ordered sets with transitive automorphism groups

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Manfred Droste

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1985; Volume 57, Number 334
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2335-4 (print); 978-1-4704-0747-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0334
MathSciNet review: 803976
MSC: Primary 06A10; Secondary 20B22

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Notation
  • 3. Transitive automorphism groups
  • 4. The structure theorem
  • 5. Trees
  • 6. Countable trees
  • 7. Embeddings of arbitrary finite partially ordered sets
  • 8. Relationship between transitivity and homogeneity of $A(\Omega )$
  • 9. Some open problems