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The largest projective cube-free subsets of $\mathbb{Z}_{2^n}$

Combinatorics 2018-10-03 v1

Abstract

In the Boolean lattice, Sperner's, Erd\H{o}s's, Kleitman's and Samotij's theorems state that families that do not contain many chains must have a very specific layered structure. We show that if instead of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_2^n we work in Z2n\mathbb{Z}_{2^n}, several analogous statements hold if one replaces the word kk-chain by projective cube of dimension 2k12^{k-1}. We say that BdB_d is a projective cube of dimension dd if there are numbers a1,a2,,ada_1, a_2, \ldots, a_d such that Bd={iIaiI[d]}.B_d = \left\{\sum_{i\in I} a_i \bigg\rvert \emptyset \neq I\subseteq [d]\right\}. As an analog of Sperner's and Erd\H{o}s's theorems, we show that whenever d=2d=2^{\ell} is a power of two, the largest dd-cube free set in Z2n\mathbb{Z}_{2^n} is the union of the largest \ell layers. As an analog of Kleitman's theorem, Samotij and Sudakov asked whether among subsets of Z2n\mathbb{Z}_{2^n} of given size MM, the sets that minimize the number of Schur triples (2-cubes) are those that are obtained by filling up the largest layers consecutively. We prove the first non-trivial case where M=2n1+1M=2^{n-1}+1, and conjecture that the analog of Samotij's theorem also holds. Several open questions and conjectures are also given.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01225,
  title  = {The largest projective cube-free subsets of $\mathbb{Z}_{2^n}$},
  author = {Jason Long and Adam Zsolt Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01225},
  year   = {2018}
}

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