Greedy balanced pairs in $N$-free ordered sets

Abstract

An $\alpha$-greedy balanced pair in an ordered set $P=(V,\le )$ is a pair $(x,y)$ of elements of $V$ such that the proportion of greedy linear extensions of $P$ that put $x$ before $y$ among all greedy linear extensions is in the real interval $[\alpha ,1-\alpha ]$. We prove that every $N$-free ordered set which is not totally ordered has a $\frac{1}{2}$-greedy balanced pair.

arXiv comment9 pages, 3 figures