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Large subposets with small dimension. (English) Zbl 1336.06003
Summary: Dorais asked for the maximum guaranteed size of a subposet with dimension at most $$d$$ of an $$n$$-element poset. A lower bound of order $$\sqrt n$$ was found by Goodwillie. We provide a sublinear upper bound for each $$d$$. For $$d=2$$, our bound is $$n^{0.8295}$$.

##### MSC:
 06A07 Combinatorics of partially ordered sets
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