English

Abstract

We discuss dual Ramsey statements for several classes of finite relational structures (such as finite linearly ordered graphs, finite linearly ordered metric spaces and finite posets with a linear extension) and conclude the paper with another rendering of the Nesetřil-Rodl Theorem for relational structures. Instead of embeddings which are crucial for ``direct'' Ramsey results, for each class of structures under consideration we propose a special class of quotient maps and prove a dual Ramsey theorem in such a setting. Although our methods are based on reinterpreting the (dual) Ramsey property in the language of category theory, all our results are about classes of finite structures.