A resolution of the Aharoni--Korman conjecture

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• Lawrence Hollom (Cambridge)
• Thursday 16 October 2025, 14:30-15:30
• MR12.

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The Aharoni—Korman conjecture, also known as the fishbone conjecture, states that any poset contains a chain C and a partition into antichains such that C meets every antichain in the partition. Our results are twofold. Firstly, we construct a poset for which the conjecture is false. Secondly, we demonstrate that this counterexample is, in some sense, minimal, giving a strong positive result which shows that the conjecture is true if one makes an additional assumption about the structure of the poset.

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