The Reconstruction of Cycle-free Partial Orders from their Abstract Automorphism Groups I : Treelike CFPOs

Abstract

In this triple of papers, we examine when two cycle-free partial orders can share an abstract automorphism group. This question was posed by M. Rubin in his memoir concerning the reconstruction of trees. In this first paper, we give a variety of conditions that guarantee when a CFPO shares an automorphism group with a tree. Some of these conditions are conditions on the abstract automorphism group, while some are one the CFPO itself. Some of the lemmas used have corollaries concerning the model theoretic properties of a CFPO.