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- From: dima@maths.uwa.oz.au (Dima Pasechnik)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Counting Families of Subsets
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 09:02:04 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
-
- >Take a base set S with N elements. There are 2^N subsets of S.
- >I want to consider families of these subsets. All together there
- >are 2^{2^N} such families, but I want to impose a condition.
-
- >Let F be a family such that all elements of F are distinct subsets,
- >and no element of F is a subset of another.
-
- >How many families like this are there, for given N?
-
- >If you call the number K(N), then the first few values are:
-
- >N K
-
- >0 1
- >1 2
- >2 5
- >3 19
- >4 167
-
- >Can you tell me even the order of magnitude for K(N)? It appears to be
- >much less than 2^{2^N}.
-
- Such families are called clutters, or antichains. The question on |K(N)|
- seems to be open. Few more values of K are known:
- N K
- 4 7580
- 6 7828354
-
- There is a result of computer search due to M.Deza, I.Faradjev and
- K.Fukuda.
-
- See, say, Europ. J. Comb. for the last 5-6 years. (say, 7(1986), 271-82)
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- Dmitri Pasechnik.
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