# Higher-order dimension in posets: a reference request

Let $P = (X, \le)$ be a partially-ordered set. Then the dimension of $P$ is the minimum number of total orders over $X$ whose intersection yields $P$. Alternately, the dimension of $P$ is the minimum dimension of an isomorphic embedding of $P$ into $R^d$ endowed with the dominance partial order: $(x_1, \ldots x_d) \preceq (y_1, \ldots, y_d)$ if for all $i$, $x_i \le y_i$.

The set of total orders (the realizers) that witness the dimension can be thought of as witnessing all possible legal pairwise orderings in any linear extension of $P$: if $a, b$ are not comparable in $P$, then both $a\le b$ and $a \ge b$ must be witnessed by realizers.

There is a higher-order generalization of the dimension, defined as follows. Fix a parameter $r < |X|$. Then the $r$-dimension of $P$ is the minimum number of total orders that witness all legal ordering relationships among $r+1$-tuples of elements in $P$.

For example, the trivial poset $\{a,b,c\}$ (no orderings) has dimension two via the two orderings $a,b,c$ and $c,b,a$. However, this poset has a 2-dimension of 6, because we need all the $3!=6$ orderings of the three elements.

Question:

1. Is there any known geometric interpretation of the $r$-dimension like what we have for the dimension ?
2. Are there known bounds on the $r$-dimension ? For example, we know that the dimension is upper bounded by the width (and this is a fairly weak bound in general).
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