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On incomparable collections of sets

Part of: Combinatorics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

P. D. Seymour
P. D. Seymour
Affiliation:
The Mathematical Institute, Oxford
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A. J. W. Hilton [5] conjectured that if P, Q are collections of subsets of a finite set S, with |S| = n, and |P| > 2n−2, |Q| ≥ 2n−2, then for some A ∈ P, B ∈ Q we have A ⊆ B or B ⊆ A. We here show that this assertion, indeed a stronger one, can be deduced from a result of D. J. Kleitman. We then give another proof of a recent result also proved by Lovász and by Schönheim.

MSC classification

Secondary: 05A20: Combinatorial inequalities
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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , December 1973 , pp. 208 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1973

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