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# Containment order  ( Order Theory )

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In the field of , a containment order is the that arises as the -containment relation on some collection of objects. In a simple way, every poset P = ( X,≤) is ( to) a containment order (just as every group is isomorphic to a permutation group - see Cayley's theorem). To see this, associate to each element x of X the set

$X_\leq\left(x\right) = \\left\{ y \in X | y \leq x\\right\} ;$

then the transitivity of ≤ ensures that for all a and b in X, we have

$X_\leq\left(a\right) \subseteq X_\leq\left(b\right) \mbox\left\{ precisely when \right\} a \leq b .$

There can be sets $S$ of less than $|X|$ such that P is to the containment order on S. The size of the smallest possible S is called the 2-dimension of S.

Several important classes of poset arise as containment orders for some natural collections, like the Qn, which is the collection of all 2 n subsets of an n-element set, the interval-containment orders, which are precisely the orders of at most two, and the dimension- n orders, which are the containment orders on collections of n-boxes anchored at the origin. Other containment orders that are interesting in their own right include the circle orders, which arise from disks in the plane, and the angle orders.

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