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Sizes of flat maximal antichains of subsets

Combinatorics 2024-07-01 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

This is the second of two papers investigating for which positive integers mm there exists a maximal antichain of size mm in the Boolean lattice BnB_n (the power set of [n]:={1,2,,n}[n]:=\{1,2,\dots,n\}, ordered by inclusion). In the first part, the sizes of maximal antichains have been characterized. Here we provide an alternative construction with the benefit of showing that almost all sizes of maximal antichains can be obtained using antichains containing only ll-sets and (l+1)(l+1)-sets for some ll.

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@article{arxiv.2302.07062,
  title  = {Sizes of flat maximal antichains of subsets},
  author = {Jerrold R. Griggs and Thomas Kalinowski and Uwe Leck and Ian T. Roberts and Michael Schmitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07062},
  year   = {2024}
}