English

Rich subcontexts

Combinatorics 2017-01-16 v1

Abstract

For a finite binary relation, we show a local operation which does not decrease its number of (Galois-)closed sets and eventually increases its (Vapnik-Chervonenkis)-dimension. Specifically, we show that there always exist a pair of elements, one belonging to each ground set, such that the subrelation not relating any of those elements has at least half of the Galois-closed sets. As a consequence, for each triple (n,m,k) there exists a binary relation with VC-dimension precisely k and maximum number of Galois-closed sets, such maximum being over all binary relations having ground sets with precisely n and m elements.

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@article{arxiv.1701.03478,
  title  = {Rich subcontexts},
  author = {Alexandre Albano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03478},
  year   = {2017}
}
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