{"title":"Well-quasi-ordering and Embeddability of Relational Structures","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s11083-024-09664-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>At the end of the forties, Fraïssé, following Cantor, Hausdorff and Sierpinski, highlighted the role of the embeddability quasi-order in the theory of relations. Since then, many results illustrating this role have been obtained (a large account was included in Fraïssé’s book <em>Theory of Relations</em>). In this paper, I present a selection of results centered on the notion of well-quasi-order (wqo). I mention several problems on wqo and hereditary classes of relational structures; some of these problems go back to the seventies.</p>","PeriodicalId":501237,"journal":{"name":"Order","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Order","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11083-024-09664-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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At the end of the forties, Fraïssé, following Cantor, Hausdorff and Sierpinski, highlighted the role of the embeddability quasi-order in the theory of relations. Since then, many results illustrating this role have been obtained (a large account was included in Fraïssé’s book Theory of Relations). In this paper, I present a selection of results centered on the notion of well-quasi-order (wqo). I mention several problems on wqo and hereditary classes of relational structures; some of these problems go back to the seventies.