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Given a set $X$, the power set $\mathbb{P}(X)$, and a finite poset $P$, a family $F\subset \mathbb{P}(X)$ is said to be induced-$P$-free if there is no injection $\phi: P\rightarrow \mathbb{F}$ such that $\phi(p)\subseteq\phi(q)$ if and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Ryan R Martin , Nick Veldt

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, how small can a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ be such that $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but $\mathcal F\cup\{X\}$ contains such a copy for all $X\in\mathcal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Maria-Romina Ivan , Nandi Wang

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, we say that a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ is $\mathcal P$-saturated if $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but adding any other set to $\mathcal F$ creates an induced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Maria-Romina Ivan , Sean Jaffe

We say a finite poset $P$ is a tree poset if its Hasse diagram is a tree. Let $k$ be the length of the largest chain contained in $P$. We show that when $P$ is a fixed tree poset, the number of $P$-free set systems in $2^{[n]}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-24 József Balogh , Ramon I. Garcia , Michael C. Wigal

A poset is said to be (2+2)-free if it does not contain an induced subposet that is isomorphic to 2+2, the union of two disjoint 2-element chains. Two elements in a poset are indistinguishable if they have the same strict up-set and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-04-06 Mark Dukes , Sergey Kitaev , Jeffrey Remmel , Einar Steingrimsson

How large can a family \cal A \subset \cal P [n] be if it does not contain A,B with |A\setminus B| = 1? Our aim in this paper is to show that any such family has size at most \frac{2+o(1)}{n} \binom {n}{\lfloor n/2\rfloor }. This is tight…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Imre Leader , Eoin Long

Resolving a conjecture of Methuku and the first author we determine the size of the largest family of subsets of an $n$-element set avoiding both $Y_k$ and $Y_k'$ as induced subposets. The result follows as a consequence of the analogous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Casey Tompkins , Yao Wang

In this paper, we derive a tight upper bound for the size of an intersecting $k$-Sperner family of subspaces of the $n$-dimensional vector space $\mathbb{F}_{q}^{n}$ over finite field $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ which gives a $q$-analogue of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

Let $B_n$ be the poset generated by the subsets of $[n]$ with the inclusion as relation and let $P$ be a finite poset. We want to embed $P$ into $B_n$ as many times as possible such that the subsets in different copies are incomparable. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Gyula O. H. Katona , Dániel T. Nagy

An unlabeled poset is said to be (2+2)-free if it does not contain an induced subposet that is isomorphic to 2+2, the union of two disjoint 2-element chains. Let $p_n$ denote the number of (2+2)-free posets of size $n$. In a recent paper,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-20 Sergey Kitaev , Jeffrey Remmel

For posets $P$ and $Q$, extremal and saturation problems about weak and strong $P$-free subposets of $Q$ have been studied mostly in the case $Q$ is the Boolean poset $Q_n$, the poset of all subsets of an $n$-element set ordered by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Dániel Gerbner , Dániel T. Nagy , Balázs Patkós , Máté Vizer

We are interested in maximizing the number of pairwise unrelated copies of a poset $P$ in the family of all subsets of $[n]$. We prove that for any $P$ the maximum number of unrelated copies of $P$ is asymptotic to a constant times the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Andrew P. Dove , Jerrold R. Griggs

We introduce a method of decomposing the family of intervals along a cyclic permutation into chains to determine the size of the largest family of subsets of $[n]:= \{1,2,...,n\}$ not containing one or more given posets as a subposet. De…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

A family X of sets is said to be intersecting if any two members of X have non-empty intersection. It is a well-known and simple fact that an intersecting family of subsets of [n]={1,2,...,n} can contain at most 2^(n-1) sets. Katona, Katona…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-17 Paul A. Russell

In this paper we are interested in the following problem. Let $p$ be a prime number, $S\subset \F_p$ and $\cP\subset \{P\in\F_p [X]:\deg P\le d\}$. What is the largest integer $k$ such that for all subsets $\cA, \cB$ of $\F_p$ satisfying…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Ramachandran Balasubramanian , Cécile Dartyge , Elie Mosaki

Given a finite poset $\mathcal P$, we call a family $\mathcal F$ of subsets of $[n]$ $\mathcal P$-saturated if $\mathcal F$ does not contain an induced copy of $\mathcal P$, but adding any other set to $\mathcal F$ creates an induced copy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Maria-Romina Ivan

For given posets $P$ and $Q$ and an integer $n$, the generalized Tur\'an problem for posets, asks for the maximum number of copies of $Q$ in a $P$-free subset of the $n$-dimensional Boolean lattice, $2^{[n]}$. In this paper, among other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 József Balogh , Ryan R. Martin , Dániel T. Nagy , Balázs Patkós

A family $\mathcal{F}\subset 2^G$ of subsets of an abelian group $G$ is a Sidon system if the sumsets $A+B$ with $A,B\in \mathcal{F}$ are pairwise distinct. Cilleruelo, Serra and the author previously proved that the maximum size $F_k(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Maximilian Wötzel

The paper considers the problem of finding the largest possible set P(n), a subset of the set N of the natural numbers, with the property that a number is in P(n) if and only if it is a sum of n distinct naturals all in P(n) or none in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-09-18 Bidu Prakash Das , Soubhik Chakraborty

Let $3\le d\le k$ and $\nu\ge 0$ be fixed and $\mathcal{F}\subset\binom{[n]}{k}$. The matching number of $\mathcal{F}$, denoted by $\nu(\mathcal{F})$, is the maximum number of pairwise disjoint sets in $\mathcal{F}$, and $\mathcal{F}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Xizhi Liu