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Existence of a strong antichain

Call an antichain (set of pairwise incomparable elements) $A$ of a poset $P$ strong if for every $p,q \in P$ with $p \leq q$ there exists an $a\in A$ which is comparable with both $p$ and $q$. ...
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Given a cardinal k, what's the biggest dense linear order with a dense subset of size k?

It's not hard to show that for any cardinal $\kappa$, there is no dense linear order without endpoints (DLO) of size greater than $2^{\kappa}$ that has a dense subset of size $\kappa$. But one can ...
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A problem about posets similar to Suslin's problem

Suslin's problem is: Given a complete dense linear order without endpoints, if it has the ccc must it be isomorphic to $\mathbb{R}$? The answer is that it's independent of ZFC. The related ...
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