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A partition relation for partially ordered sets

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We introduce a partition relation which is an alternate for measuring how badly the ordinary partition relation fails, we develop its corresponding partition calculus and we determine its status for various typical partially ordered sets.

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Scheepers, M. A partition relation for partially ordered sets. Order 7, 41–64 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383172

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