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On the compounding of higher order monotonic pseudo-Boolean functions

Combinatorics 2021-06-24 v1

Abstract

Compounding submodular monotone (i.e. 2-alternating) set functions on a finite set preserves this property, as shown in 2010. A natural generalization to k-alternating functions was presented in 2018, however hardly readable because of page long formulas. We give an easier proof of a more general result, exploiting known properties of higher order monotonic functions.

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@article{arxiv.2106.12221,
  title  = {On the compounding of higher order monotonic pseudo-Boolean functions},
  author = {Paul Ressel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12221},
  year   = {2021}
}
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