Source characterization of the hypergraphic posets

Abstract

For a hypergraph $\mathbb{H}$ on $[n]$, the hypergraphic poset $P_\mathbb{H}$ is the transitive closure of the oriented $1$-skeleton of the hypergraphic polytope $\Delta_\mathbb{H}$. In a recent paper, N. Bergeron and V. Pilaud provided a characterization of $P_\mathbb{H}$ based on the sources of acyclic orientations for interval hypergraphs. The goal of this work is to extend this source characterization of $P_\mathbb{H}$ for arbitrary hypergraphs on $[n]$.