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Highmann's Theorem on Discrete Sets

Fabio BurderiGiuseppa CastiglioneAntonio Restivo

subject

subpicture order and wellpartial-ordering.Discrete sets polyominoes and L-convex polyominoe

description

In this paper we investigate properties of different classes of discrete sets with respect to the partial-order of subpicture. In particular we take in consideration the classes of convex polyominoes and L-convex polyominoes. In the first part of the paper we study closure properties of these classes with respect the order and we give a new characterization of L-convex polyominoes. In the second part we pose the question to extend Higman’s theoremto discrete sets. We give a negative answer in the general case and we prove that the set of L-convex polyominoes is well-partially-ordered by using a representation of L-convex polyominoes in terms of words of a regular language.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2006-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10447/40019