Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "Proper name for a partial order" (15399)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:22:48 -0700

I don't see why not. There are currently 101 questions with the tag [terminology], and your question should fit right in. Moreover it is a question with a definite answer. I'd say go ahead with it.

victorsmiller comments on "Proper name for a partial order" (15390)

victorsmiller — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:04:55 -0700

In a recent paper of mine, my co-authors found that a partial order that we were using was contained in a paper by Kundgen. In it, he called it "right-shifted partial order". I was curious, and found that I couldn't find that term used anywhere other than in our paper and Kundgen's. I wasn't even in the Handbook of Combinatorics. I wrote to Kundgen and asked where he got that terminology from. He told me that he had heard it in a seminar conducted by Doug West. I wrote to West, and he said that he had never heard of it! I have a sneaking suspicion that it's been used before but under a different name, and so would like to know what that name is. Is this sort of query ok for MO?

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