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Two Order Invariants Related to the Fixed Point Property

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We introduce two numerical invariants of orders that measure how close a poset is to having the fixed point property. We give general properties of those invariants and link them to known results on the fixed point property.

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  1. Departamento de Matemáticas, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Apartado Postal 14-740, Mexico, DF 07000. E-mail

    Simone Hazan

  2. Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, CU, Mexico, DF 04510. E-mail

    Víctor Neumann-Lara

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Hazan, S., Neumann-Lara, V. Two Order Invariants Related to the Fixed Point Property. Order 15, 97–111 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006070228535

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