The setup polyhedron of series-parallel posets Original Research Article

To every linear extension L of a poset P = (P, <) we associate a 0, 1-vector x = x(L) with xe = 1 if and only if e is preceded by a jump in L or e is the first element in L. Let the setup polyhedron, S = conv{x(L): L ϵ L(P)} be the convex hull of the incidence vectors of all linear extensions of P. For the case of series-parallel posets we solve the optimization problem over S and give a linear description of S.