Section: New Results

Cyclic Ordering through Partial Orders

The orientation problem for ternary cyclic order relations has been attacked in the literature from combinatorial perspectives, through rotations, and by connection with Petri nets. In [7], we propose a two-fold characterization of orientable cyclic orders in terms of symmetries of partial orders as well as in terms of separating sets (cuts). The results are inspired by properties of non-sequential discrete processeses, but also apply to dense structures of any cardinality.