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Posets,chains and antichains a poset partially ordered set is a set p together with a binary relation which is transitive x pdf and epub format. Several of the bestknown results on finite partially ordered sets concern maximal chains and antichains, including dilworths maxmin theorem on chain partitions and sperners characterization of maximumsized antichains in the boolean lattice of all subsets of a finite set. We show that, for a large class of countable order types. Families of chains of a poset and sperner properties. Nutan iitb cs 207 discrete mathematics 201220 may 2011 7 14.
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