I think it is true that if the comparability graph of a poset contains an asteroidal triple then it is at-least 3 dimensional. I want to know if the converse is true, i.e. if there exists no asteroidal triple in the comparability graph, then can we say that the poset is 2-dimensional? I have worked with quite a few examples, every poset in the irreducible 3-dim posets has at-least one asteroidal triple (some have more than one, like the crown poset). If not a proof it would be fine to even show an example which contradicts the statement.
edit: also a classical result of Lekkerkerker and Boland states that a graph is an interval graph if it is chordal and Asteroidal-triple free. But the dimension of an interval graph is not bound. So can there be a poset whose comparability graph is AT-free but is of dimension 3 or more?
definition of an asteroidal triple: Three independent vertices of a graph form an asteroidal triple if every two of them are connected by a path avoiding the neighborhood of the third one. A graph is asteroidal triple-free (AT-free, for short) if it contains no asteroidal triple.