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Set Families With a Forbidden Induced Subposet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2012

EDWARD BOEHNLEIN  and
TAO JIANG
EDWARD BOEHNLEIN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA (e-mail: boehnlei@math.sc.edu, jiangt@muohio.edu)
TAO JIANG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA (e-mail: boehnlei@math.sc.edu, jiangt@muohio.edu)
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Abstract

For each poset H whose Hasse diagram is a tree of height k, we show that the largest size of a family of subsets of [n]={1,. . ., n} not containing H as an induced subposet is asymptotic to . This extends a result of Bukh [1], which in turn generalizes several known results including Sperner's theorem.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , July 2012 , pp. 496 - 511
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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