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On Intersecting Chains in Boolean Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Peter L. Erdős ,
Ákos Seress  and
László A. Székely
Peter L. Erdős
Affiliation:
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, P.O. Box 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ákos Seress
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210
László A. Székely
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Abstract

Analogues of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem are proved for the Boolean algebra of all subsets of {1,…n} and in this algebra truncated by the removal of the empty set and the whole set.

Type
Research Article
Information
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 57 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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