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Partial well-ordering of sets of vectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. Rado
R. Rado
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King's College, London
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Graham Higman (1) has investigated quasi-order [(2), p. 4] relations a ≤ b on a set S which, in his terminology, have the following finite basis property:

If A ⊂ S, then there is a finite set B ⊂ A such that, given any a α A, there is some b α B satisfying b ≤ a.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1954 , pp. 89 - 95
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Copyright © University College London 1954

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