Betweenness of partial orders

04/21/2020

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by   Bruno Courcelle, et al.

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We construct a monadic second-order sentence that characterizes the ternary relations that are the betweenness relations of finite or infinite partial orders. We prove that no first-order sentence can do that. We characterize the partial orders that can be reconstructed from their betweenness relations. We propose a polynomial time algorithm that tests if a finite relation is the be-tweenness of a partial order.